Acute diverticulitis is a common sequela of colonic diverticulosis that often poses a
significant dilemma for surgeons and patients considering surgical management of the …

Objective: Understand the patient's decision-making process regarding colectomy for
recurrent diverticulitis. Background: The decision to pursue elective colectomy for recurrent …

INTRODUCTION Sigmoid diverticulitis remains one of the greatest health care burdens
facing general and colorectal surgeons across North America. In the United States alone …

BACKGROUND: The etiology of diverticulitis is multifactorial and poorly understood. We
estimated the familiality of diverticulitis using the Utah Population Database, a statewide …

Objective Polygenic risk scores (PRS) for diverticular disease must be evaluated in diverse
cohorts. We sought to explore shared genetic predisposition across the phenome and to …

BACKGROUND: Despite its prevalence and associated morbidity, we remain limited in our
ability to predict the course of a patient with diverticular disease. Although several clinical …

Introduction Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death in the UK and
globally. People identified as being at high risk may receive further investigations or …

Objectives: Bone mineral density (BMD) is an indirect detection tool for osteoporosis (OP).
Utilizing the latest multi-omics quantitative trait loci (QTLs) data, we aimed to identify novel …

Clinical information for BioVU participants is maintained in a deidentified database of
Vanderbilt University Medical Center's electronic medical record, the Synthetic Derivative …