Clinical Study
Intestinal Obstruction due to Bezoar in Elderly Patients: Risk Factors and Treatment Results
Table 1
Coincidental diseases in all patients.
| | Demographic findings (n=121) | n | % |
| | Coincidental disease1 | 52 | 43.0 | | (i) Diabetes Mellitus | 25 | 20.7 | | (ii) Hypertension | 19 | 15.7 | | (iii) Incisional hernia | 5 | 4.1 | | (iv) Prostate diseases (benign prostate hyperplasia) | 5 | 4.1 | | (v) Cardiac and coronary artery diseases | 3 | 2.5 | | (vi) Arrhythmia | 3 | 2.4 | | (vii) Chronic pulmonary diseases | 3 | 2.5 | | (viii) Cerebro-vascular diseases | 2 | 1.6 | | (ix) Renal diseases (chronic renal failure) | 1 | 0.8 | | (x) Psychiatric disorder | 1 | 0.8 | | (xi) Psoriasis | 1 | 0.8 | | (xii) Obesity | 1 | 0.8 |
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1Eleven patients had two or more diseases.
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