What Is Biliary Colic?
Reviewed: Dr. Gromatzky
8. Risk Factors
While nobody is completely safe from biliary colic, it is more likely to affect people in certain demographics than others. One of these is age, and most instances occur in people that are over the age of 40. Women are also more likely to get it, and this is due to the higher levels of the estrogen hormone in women.
There is also a chance that biliary colic can be passed on genetically, and people from certain ethnicities are also more likely to develop it than others are. People that eat high fat diets are also more prone, as are people that are obese.
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