A 16-year trend of etiology in acute pancreatitis: The increasing proportion of hypertriglyceridemia-associated acute pancreatitis and its adverse effect on prognosis

Acute pancreatitis (AP) is an acute inflammation of the pancreas, which caused increasing global health and economic burden. Longitudinal trends of disease etiology and its influence on prognosis remains unclear.The aim of this study was to analyze the trend of etiology in moderately severe acute pancreatitis (MSAP) and severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) and to evaluate the influence of the changing pattern of etiology.A 16-year cohort study was...