DIVERTICULAR-DISEASE, CARCINOMA OF THE COLON AND DIET IN URBAN AND RURAL KENYAN AFRICANS

  • 1 January 1980
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 49  (1) , 23-28
Abstract
Twenty cases of diverticular disease and 12 cases of carcinoma of the colon were demonstrated in 183 barium enemas in 1 yr. These results, along with a dietary survey, show that diverticular disease can no longer be considered rare in Kenyan Africans and that a low-fiber diet is a contributory but perhaps not the only factor in its etiology. There is probably an increasing incidence of diverticular disease as well as an increasing recognition of it. The incidence of carcinoma does not appear to be increasing to the same extent.