People with diabetes or chronic pancreatitis are also at increased risk.

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.

Some patients with chronic pancreatitis look very sick, while others don't appear to be unhealthy at all.

How do I manage the pain of chronic pancreatitis?

Chronic pancreatitis is a known risk factor for cancer of the pancreas.

What happens during the course of chronic pancreatitis varies.

Correlations between low levels and chronic pancreatitis and cancer have been reported.

Diabetes, made more intractable by the chronic pancreatitis, emerged 10 years ago.

Other risks include chronic pancreatitis and cirrhosis of the liver.

Chronic pancreatitis can slowly destroy the pancreas and lead to diabetes or even death.

In developed countries, the most common causes of chronic pancreatitis are alcohol and idiopathic.

From 1977 the diagnoses of acute and chronic pancreatitis could be obtained separately.

Persons with chronic pancreatitis have attacks of abdominal pain and digestive problems.

There may be also some correlations between diabetes, chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer.

Unfortunately, acute and chronic pancreatitis could not be separated in the discharge statistics before 1977.

Chronic pancreatitis often results in malabsorption problems and diabetes.

Frey's operation is indicated on patients with chronic pancreatitis who have "head dominant" disease.

Adams is recognized as an expert in chronic pancreatitis surgeries and has been published over 100 times.

Chronic pancreatitis can lead to diabetes or pancreatic cancer.

Almost all patients with cystic fibrosis have established chronic pancreatitis, usually from birth.

There are other non-specific laboratory studies useful in diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis.

The incidence and natural history of pseudoaneurysms complicating chronic pancreatitis is unknown.