Influence of age, body mass index and comorbidity on major outcomes in acute pancreatitis, a prospective nation-wide multicentre study.
Robert A MoranGuillermo García-RayadoDaniel de la Iglesia-GarcíaEmma Martínez-MoneoEsther Fort-MartorellEugenia Lauret-BrañaMar Concepción-MartínFabio AusaniaCarlos Prieto-MartínezMiguel González-de-CaboNoé Quesada-VázquezM Asunción Marcaide-Ruiz-de-ApodacaJosé A Pajares-DíazFrancia C DíazJosé L de-BenitoJennifer Hinojosa-GuadixPilar Marqués-GarcíaJaume BoadasEduardo Bajador-AndreuOswaldo MorenoFederico Argüelles-AriasGregorio Martín-BenítezCarla Tafur-SánchezJesús Leal-TéllezBeatriz Romero-MosqueraRuben HernaezGeorgios I PapachristouVikesh K SinghEnrique de MadariaPublished in: United European gastroenterology journal (2018)
Comorbidity and obesity are important determinates of mortality and persistent organ failure in acute pancreatitis, but in the absence of organ failure they do not appear to independently contribute to morbidity. This has important implications for severity classification and predictive models of severity in acute pancreatitis.