{"id":595047,"date":"2026-04-09T06:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595047\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T06:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:17:11","slug":"diverticulitis-up-to-27-more-common-in-summer-or-autumn-than-winter-aussie-review-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595047\/","title":{"rendered":"Diverticulitis up to 27% more common in summer or autumn than winter, Aussie review shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diverticulitis cases peak in summer and autumn, likely because of seasonal changes in diet, activity and hydration, an Australian systematic review has found.<\/p>\n<p>The findings suggest that doctors can help patients by emphasising risk reduction during the warmer months, the researchers from Liverpool Hospital in Sydney say.<\/p>\n<p>Their review of more than 1.1 million diverticulitis cases from 1997 to 2019\u00a0found that cases troughed in winter, before rising 16-27% in summer and autumn.<\/p>\n<p>The pattern was consistent across hemispheres, suggesting modifiable environmental factors were at play, they wrote in JAMA Surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diverticulitis cases peak in summer and autumn, likely because of seasonal changes in diet, activity and hydration, an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,66914,8175,27396,137,44,1836,1369],"class_list":{"0":"post-595047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-emergency-departments","11":"tag-environmental","12":"tag-gastroenterology","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-public-health","16":"tag-surgery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}