Lin YC, Kor CT, Su WW, Hsu YC. Risk factors and prediction score for chronic pancreatitis: A nationwide population-based cohort study. World J Gastroenterol 2018; 24(44): 5034-5045 [PMID: 30510378 DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v24.i44.5034]
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Yen-Chih Lin, MD, Attending Doctor, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, No.135 Nanhsiao Street, Changhua 50006, Taiwan. 144315@cch.org.tw
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Gastroenterology & Hepatology
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Retrospective Cohort Study
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World J Gastroenterol. Nov 28, 2018; 24(44): 5034-5045 Published online Nov 28, 2018. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v24.i44.5034
Risk factors and prediction score for chronic pancreatitis: A nationwide population-based cohort study
Yen-Chih Lin, Chew-Teng Kor, Wei-Wen Su, Yu-Chun Hsu
Yen-Chih Lin, Wei-Wen Su, Yu-Chun Hsu, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua 50006, Taiwan
Chew-Teng Kor, Internal Medicine Research Center, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua 50006, Taiwan
Author contributions: All the authors solely contributed to this paper.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved for publication by our Institutional Reviewer.
Informed consent statement: The data of our study cohort was obtained retrospectively from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database, hence informed consent statement is unnecessary.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the Authors have no conflict of interest related to the manuscript.
Data sharing statement: The original anonymous dataset is available on request from the corresponding author at 144315@cch.org.tw
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement-checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement-checklist of items.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author to: Yen-Chih Lin, MD, Attending Doctor, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, No.135 Nanhsiao Street, Changhua 50006, Taiwan. 144315@cch.org.tw
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Received: September 8, 2018 Peer-review started: September 10, 2018 First decision: October 24, 2018 Revised: October 29, 2018 Accepted: November 9, 2018 Article in press: November 9, 2018 Published online: November 28, 2018 Processing time: 80 Days and 13.6 Hours
Core Tip
Core tip: In this large number, nationwide population-based cohort study, we concluded that the presence of recurrent acute pancreatitis (RAP), along with alcohol consumption, age of onset, and smoking habit are 4 important risk factors of chronic pancreatitis (CP). We developed a novel prediction score model for CP with excellent discrimination and successfully validated this model in our study. Using this scoring system, a clinician can predict the outcome of a patient with AP episode easily and arrange further examination such as pancreatic functional test or endoscopic ultrasound after the acute stage for the high-risk category to diagnose CP as early as possible (incidence rate of CP about 31 per 1000 person-years in high-risk group, based on our study) since CP is an important risk factor of pancreatic cancer.
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Lin YC, Kor CT, Su WW, Hsu YC. Risk factors and prediction score for chronic pancreatitis: A nationwide population-based cohort study. World J Gastroenterol 2018; 24(44): 5034-5045 [PMID: 30510378 DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v24.i44.5034]
