Research Data from Digestive Disease Center Update Understanding of Chronic Pancreatitis (Association between chronic pancreatitis and urolithiasis:…
Research Data from Digestive Disease Center Update Understanding of Chronic Pancreatitis (Association between chronic pancreatitis and urolithiasis: A population-based cohort study)
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Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Digestive Disease Center, "However, no studies have reported an association between CP and urolithiasis. We identified 15,848 patients (age: greater than or equal to20 years) diagnosed as having CP between 2000 and 2010 from the National Health Insurance Research Database as the study cohort. Beneficiaries without a history of CP were randomly selected and propensity-matched with the study cohort in a 1:4 ratio according to age; sex; comorbidities of hyperlipidemia, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, alcohol-related illness, stroke, and coronary artery disease; and the index date. The prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease (0.44%), hyperparathyroidism (0.10%), or end stage renal disease (1.55%) in CP patients was low, but these comorbidities were also considered in the analysis. All patients were followed until the end of 2011 or withdrawal from the
According to the news editors, the research concluded: "Our findings warrant a survey and education on urolithiasis for patients with CP."
For more information on this research see: Association between chronic pancreatitis and urolithiasis: A population-based cohort study. Plos One, 2018;13(3):e0194019. (
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