title: The genesis of chronic pancreatitis in the South African black population.
abstract: Pancreatitis was previously an unknown disease among black South Africans but has recently emerged as a common clinical problem. This has taken place pari passu with a change in the pattern of alcoholic consumption--Western-type spirits in addition to home-brews. Seventy patients with chronic alcoholic pancreatitis manifesting as clinically acute pancreatitis, and 90 patients with chronic calcific pancreatitis were studied. A high alcohol intake was associated with the pancreatitis in all cases. The prognosis in clinically acute pancreatitis was good, whereas chronic calcific pancreatitis has a high morbidity and mortality rate.
authors.affiliation: Gastro-enterology Unit, Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Segal
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lerios
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: MacPhail
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: di Bisceglie
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Grieve
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D000368:Aged; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications*; D044383:Black People; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000209:etiology*; D013019:South Africa