It has long been recognized that hyperlipemia* may occur in association with pancreatitis. In earlier reports of cases of acute and recurrent pancreatitis, the rate of hyperlipemia varied between 3 and 12 per cent.1 More recent studies have suggested that this association is more common than is generally appreciated, and the frequency of hyperlipemia may be as high as 20 to 25 per cent.2 However, the high frequency in the study by Cameron and his associates2 may be due to the large number of their patients with pancreatitis related to alcohol ingestion.Pancreatitis, hyperlipemia and alcoholism constitute a triad in . . .
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Norton J. Greenberger (1973) studied this question.