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· Inflammation/infections/immunity
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· Denmark
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Jump to full article: MedPage Today, 2009-03-23
Author: Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today
Intro: Action Points
* Explain to interested patients that the established risk factors for pancreatitis are alcohol use and gallstones.
* Note that this cohort study found that almost half the cases of the illness were associated with tobacco use, independent of the other risk factors.
* Point out that this study cannot prove causality.
The finding, from a large Danish cohort study, adds tobacco use to the established pancreatitis risk factors of alcohol use and gallstone disease, according to Janne Schurmann Tolstrup, Ph.D., of the University of Southern Denmark, and colleagues.
The increased risk was roughly the same in both men and women and increased with the amount of tobacco smoked, the researchers said in the March 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
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