Impact of smoking on the risk of pancreatitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Cigarette smoking may increase the risk of developing pancreatic cancer, although its impact on pancreatitis has only been discerned in recent years. However, the results of previous studies differ. We performed a meta-analysis to provide a quantitative pooled risk estimate...

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Main Authors: Xiaohua Ye, Guangrong Lu, Jiaping Huai, Jin Ding
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4399880?pdf=render