Combined laparoscopic and endoscopic treatment of gallstones and bile duct stones: A prospective study

✍ Scribed by S. W. Galloway; J. Blazeby; B. Tulloh; K. R. Poskitt; C. P. Armstrong

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 194 KB
• Volume: 81
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800811156

✦ Synopsis

In our laudable anxiety to pin down the causes of cardiovascular disease we tend to concentrate on elements that are easily measured such as blood pressure, blood fats and smoking, while ignoring those that are difficult to measure, such as stress. It has been said that, if all the known risk factors in coronary artery disease were accounted for, this would explain only 30 r cent of the incidents. I believe that our arterial disease rate is hi& in ~r i t a i n because we are a smaller country than France and that stress levels are higher because of diminished personal space. This parameter is of course difficult to assess and thus is measured only in obscure journals of psychology by tests that are of doubtful validity. It does, however, provide a possible explanation for the above uncomfortable fact.