This study aimed to understand the correlations of prevalence, incidence, and relevant variables of cholelithiasis with a group of cirrhosis patients and a control group targeting the subjects who received the abdomen ultrasonography from K university hospital in Daejeon Metropolitan City from January 1st 2015 to December 31st 2019. And the results are as follows.
First, the group of cirrhosis patients showed relatively higher prevalence and incidence of cholelithiasis than the control group as ordinary people, which showed statistically significant differences.
Second, in the control group, the cholelithiasis showed statistically significant differences according to age while the statistical correlation was very low in the group of cirrhosis patients.
Third, according to sex, the prevalence was not statistically significant in both group of cirrhosis patients and control group while the incidence showed statistically significant differences in the control group.
Fourth, in each degree and cause of subdivided cirrhosis, the correlation was only shown in each degree.
Fifth, in the results of Cox regression analysis, there were no statistically significant differences according to sex, age, and the matter of having cirrhosis while the incidence of cholelithiasis showed statistically significant differences according to each degree of cirrhosis.
In the results of this study, the cirrhosis patients showed high correlation with the incidence of cholelithiasis, and the control group showed the high correlation with the incidence of cholelithiasis according to age. Such results of this study could contribute to the national health through the prevention and early treatment of cirrhosis and cholelithiasis by greatly expanding the recipients of abdomen ultrasonography in the general health examination, carried out every two years by the National Health Insurance Corporation.