PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to characterize the gender and age differences in @entity1 with clinically symptomatic sigmoid @entity66 requiring surgery. METHODS: All surgical @entity1 hospitalized with proven @entity66 requiring sigmoid resection from January 1988 to January 1998 were reviewed. RESULTS: A total of 934 @entity1 requiring surgical resection for @entity66 were admitted. There were 443 @entity1 and 491 @entity1 with an average age of 64. Forty-nine @entity1 presented with massive @entity548 (males, 3.6 percent; females, 1.6 percent), 329 with @entity4436 (males, 15.8 percent; females, 19.3 percent), 61 with obstructive symptoms (males, 2.7 percent; females, 3.9 percent), 148 with @entity292 (males, 8.0 percent; females, 7.8 percent), 170 with perforation (male, 8.7 percent; female, 9.4 percent), 79 with abscess (males, 4.0 percent; females, 4.5 percent), 59 with stricture (males, 2.2 percent; females, 4.0 percent), and 39 with @entity697 (males, 2.2 percent; females, 1.9 percent). Overall, @entity1 younger than 50 presented more often with chronic or recurrent @entity4436 . CONCLUSIONS: Female @entity1 present, on average, five years later than male with complications requiring surgery. Overall, @entity1 have a higher incidence of @entity548 (P = 0.015), whereas @entity1 present more often with stricture and obstruction (P = 0.02). Young males present more with @entity292 (P = 0.03), whereas older males present with @entity548 (P = 0.001). Young females present with perforation (P = 0.002), and older females present with @entity4436 (P = 0.04) and stricture (P = 0.04).

Population-based incidence of complicated XXXX of the sigmoid colon based on gender and age.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['women', 'patients', 'men'] @entity697 :: ('MESH:D000208', 'Disease') :: ['acute diverticulitis'] @entity66 :: ('MESH:D004194', 'Disease') :: ['diverticular disease'] @entity548 :: ('MESH:D006470', 'Disease') :: ['rectal bleeding', 'bleeding'] @entity292 :: ('MESH:D005402', 'Disease') :: ['fistula', 'fistulas'] @entity4436 :: ('MESH:D004238', 'Disease') :: ['diverticulitis', 'chronic diverticulitis']
@entity66 :: (MESH:D004194,Disease) :: ['diverticular disease']
