What relationship, if any, does sex, age, fertility, and weight have on cholecystitis?
Frequently females that are over forty years of age, overweight (fat), have had several children (fertile), and have a fair complexion have gall stones. From the above, someone has tagged this as the five "F" disease (female, fat, forty, fertile, fair), but it was not me!
Woman that have had several children tend to be overweight or at least have significant fat deposits in their intestines. It has been suggested that this extra pressure, along with the pressure that was exerted on the GB from the pregnancies, could cause the irritation to get the stones started. After forty, or after menopause, the hormone change seems to be conducive to gallstone formation. I have not been able to find out what, if any, relationship fair complexion has with cholecystitis.
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