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Digestive & GastrointestinalModerate
Inguinal Hernia
General Surgery · Digestive & Gastrointestinal
Moderate
Severity
Common — one of the most frequent surgical conditions, more common in men, affecting a significant proportion of the population over a lifetime
Prevalence
No
Contagious
General Surgery
Specialist
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Occurs due to a congenital or acquired weakness in the abdominal wall muscles
- 2often at a site where the inguinal canal naturally exists. Risk factors include chronic coughing
- 3heavy lifting
- 4straining during bowel movements or urination
- 5obesity
- 6pregnancy
- 7and a family history of hernias. Aging and prior abdominal surgery also weaken the muscle layers
- 8increasing susceptibility.
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