ABSTRACT
The present study was carried out at the Basic Medical Sciences Institute Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi. To evaluate few of the risk factors associated with development of cholelithiasis in our population. Total of sixty patients having gallstones and 25 age and sex matched controls were included. The qualitative analysis of stones was done into chloesterol or the pigment type. Various factors like age and sex, obesity, parity, jaundice and familial tendency was observed and recorded. We concluded that female sex, multiparity, obesity, use of oral contraceptives and familial tendency are few of the risk associated with development of cholesterol gall stones while these factors do not seem to have any relation with pigment type of stones