5-F risk factors for cholelithiasis (mnemonic)
Dr Henry Knipe ◉ et al.
The 5-F rule refers to risk factors for the development of cholelithiasis in an event of upper abdominal pain:
- fair: more prevalent in Caucasian population 1
- fat: BMI >30
- female gender
- fertile: one or more children
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forty: age ≥40
- cholelithiasis can occur in young patients with a positive family history; in such cases, the 'familial' factor can substitute the 'forty' factor 2
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