@article{585d9ac073a54c71a093fcd1ee87a6b2,
title = "Validation of Demographics, Etiology, and Risk Factors for Chronic Pancreatitis in the USA: A Report of the North American Pancreas Study (NAPS) Group",
author = "Conwell, \{Darwin L.\} and Conwell, \{Darwin L.\} and Banks, \{Peter A.\} and Sandhu, \{Bimaljit S.\} and Stuart Sherman and Samer Al-Kaade and Gardner, \{Timothy B.\} and Anderson, \{Michelle A.\} and Wilcox, \{C. Mel\} and Lewis, \{Michele D.\} and Thiruvengadam Muniraj and Forsmark, \{Christopher E.\} and Cote, \{Gregory A.\} and Guda, \{Nalini M.\} and Ye Tian and Joseph Romagnuolo and Wisniewski, \{Stephen R.\} and Randall Brand and Andres Gelrud and Adam Slivka and Whitcomb, \{David C.\} and Dhiraj Yadav",
note = "BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Our aim was to validate recent epidemiologic trends and describe the distribution of TIGAR-O risk factors in chronic pancreatitis (CP) patients.METHODS: The NAPS-2 Continuation and Validation (NAPS2-CV) study prospectively enrolled 521 CP patients from 13 US centers from 2008 to 2012. CP was defined by definitive changes in imaging, endoscopy, or histology.",
year = "2017",
month = aug,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/s10620-017-4621-z",
language = "American English",
volume = "62",
journal = "Digestive Diseases and Sciences",
}