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BMI is positively associated with presence of diverticulosis.

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posted on 2014-04-16, 02:44 authored by Sarah S. Comstock, Markita M. Lewis, Dorothy R. Pathak, Kari Hortos, Bruce Kovan, Jenifer I. Fenton

Overweight individuals were 3.3 (CI: 0.9–11.3) times more likely, and obese individuals were 7.8 (CI: 2.3–26.3) times more likely to present with diverticulosis than normal weight individuals. With each increase in BMI category, the odds of having diverticulosis increased by 2.7 (CI: 1.6–4.7) fold.

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