The Effect of Small Amounts of Alcohol on the Clinical Course of Chronic Pancreatitis

To investigate the hypothesis that an increasing intake of alcohol accelerates the course of chronic pancreatitis.In this retrospective record analysis and subsequent prospective follow-up of 372 patients with chronic pancreatitis, we separately compared the clinical course of chronic pancreatitis among the following patients: those with early-onset idiopathic chronic pancreatitis and no alcohol intake (group A [n=25]) and those with late-onset...