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industrialized nations over the past few decades.5,6 A 2016 study using data from the National Inpatient Sample esti-mated that the prevalence of hospitalization for divertic-ulitis increased from 74.1 of 100,000 in 2000 to a peak of 96.0 of 100,000 in 2008.7 These authors found that there were 2,151,023 hospitalizations for diverticulitis during

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