{"id":17682,"date":"2023-12-02T10:47:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T05:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17682"},"modified":"2025-04-05T05:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T00:25:20","slug":"cholelithiasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/cholelithiasis\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Cholelithiasis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Cholelithiasis<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The condition of having gallstones is\u00a0called cholelithiasis.<\/li>\n<li>It is a common hepatobiliary condition affecting mostly Western populations.<\/li>\n<li>It is a major risk factor for\u00a0cholangiocarcinoma, which is a kind of\u00a0bile duct cancer.<\/li>\n<li>Gallstones are hardened deposits of digestive fluid that form in the gallbladder.<\/li>\n<li>The gallbladder is a small, pear-shaped organ that lies beneath the liver and stores bile made by the liver.<\/li>\n<li>Bile is a digestive fluid made of cholesterol, bile salts, and bilirubin and gets released into the small intestine through the cystic duct and common bile duct, to aid in fat digestion.<\/li>\n<li>Causes:\u00a0The exact cause of cholelithiasis is not entirely clear. Cholelithiasis most\u00a0commonly results from a\u00a0chemical imbalance within the contents of the gallbladder in which the bile contains too much cholesterol or bilirubin.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Symptom: The most common symptom of cholelithiasis is abdominal pain localized to the upper right or central abdomen.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Treatment: It may be treated with medications or procedures.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is gallbladder?<\/h3>\n<p>A gallbladder is a small, pear-shaped organ located under your liver that stores and releases bile. Bile is the fluid your liver produces that helps digest fats in the food you eat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/science\/study-finds-complex-link-between-lipids-and-cholelithiasis\/1861398\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Study finds complex link between lipids and cholelithiasis<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cholelithiasis is a common hepatobiliary condition affecting mostly Western populations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}