Population
A 43-year-old female patient with a history of diabetes presenting with severe epigastric abdominal pain and…
Design
Case_report
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Supports considering pancreatitis risk at moderate triglyceride levels; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
Acute pancreatitis can be triggered by moderate hypertriglyceridemia (levels below 1000 mg/dL), suggesting that the risk of developing acute pancreatitis should be considered even at lower triglyceride thresholds.
Gayam et al. (2018) studied this question.
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