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Could you tell me what's the chance of someone getting appendicitis?
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Statistics: Statistical analysis showed the risk of appendicitis is 6 to 8% in the us, slightly higher for males, from a 1990 study from cdc. (http://www.Ncbi.Nlm.Nih.Gov/pubmed/2239906).
Answered 10/23/2017
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