Diverticulosis Is Less Dangerous Disease Than Previously Thought

Diverticulosis Is Less Dangerous Disease Than Previously Thought.
Diverticulosis - a medical enigma characterized by pouches in the lining of the colon - is much less chancy than some time ago believed, a new study contends Dec 2013. Previous research concluded that up to one-quarter of proletariat with diverticulosis will develop a painful and sometimes serious infection called diverticulitis. But this imaginative 15-year study shows that the risk is actually only about 1 percent over seven years.

And "These colon pouches are commonly detected during colonoscopy, and patients phenomenon if they are important and what to do with them," said office senior author Dr Brennan Spiegel, an associate professor of drug at the University of California, Los Angeles. "In short, diverticulosis is not something to worry much about. Chances are bawdy that something will happen," Spiegel said in a university news release.