Clinical Profile Etiology and Treatment of Chronic Pancreatitis in North American Women: Analysis of a Large Multicenter Cohort

摘要

ObjectivesHistorically, chronic pancreatitis (CP) was considered a disease of alcoholic males, but recent data suggest its etiology to be complex. To better understand CP in women, we compared data on women and men with CP in a large, prospectively ascertained multicenter US cohort.