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Jump to full article: Medscape, 2009-03-30
Author: Laurie Barclay, MD
Intro: Smoking appears to be associated with an increased risk for acute and chronic pancreatitis, according to the results of an observational, population-based cohort study reported in the March 23 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
"Alcohol and gallstone disease are the most established risk factors for pancreatitis," write Janne Schurmann Tolstrup, MSc, PhD, from the University of Southern Denmark in Copenhagen, and colleagues. "Smoking is rarely considered to be a cause despite the fact that a few studies have indicated the opposite. We aimed to assess the independent effects of smoking on the risk of pancreatitis."
The study cohort consisted of 9573 women and 8332 men in Denmark who underwent a physical examination and completed self-administered questionnaires about lifestyle habits at baseline, and who were followed up for a mean of 20.2 years. Record linkage with the Danish national registries allowed determination of incident cases of acute and chronic pancreatitis.
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