When used in the appropriate setting, pain from chronic pancreatitis can improve.
Chronic pancreatitis can be present even though there are no clinical signs of the disease.
In about 45% of people, chronic pancreatitis is caused by prolonged alcohol use.
Alcohol is the single most common etiology of chronic pancreatitis.
More recent population based studies from the Copenhagen area in the early and late 1970s showed 7-10/100000 incidence of chronic pancreatitis.
Chronic pancreatitis is a known risk factor for cancer of the pancreas.
How do I manage the pain of chronic pancreatitis?
Correlations between low levels and chronic pancreatitis and cancer have been reported.
What happens during the course of chronic pancreatitis varies.
Diabetes, made more intractable by the chronic pancreatitis, emerged 10 years ago.