The role of mast cells in the pathogenesis of pain in chronic pancreatitis

BMC Gastroenterology

Table 1 Patient demographics

A Patients with chronic pancreatitis and pain
	Patient 1	Patient 2	Patient 3	Patient 4	Patient 5	Patient 6	Patient 7	Patient 8
Age	54	58	38	63	61	65	38	73
Race/gender	B-M	C-M	LA-M	C-M	C-F	B-M	C-M	C-M
Cause of death	arrhythmia	AMI	Cardio-myopathy	pneumonia/ESLD	liver-failure	CAD/cachexia	Gibleed/ARDS	PE
Comorbidities	ESRD/CP/HCV	COPD/CP	CP/sp Puestow	cirrhosis/COPD/CP	HTN/CP	HTN/CP	CP/sp Puestow	COPD/CAD/CP/Laryngeal ca
CP etiology	ETOH	ETOH	chronic cholelithiasis	ETOH	ETOH	ETOH	ETOH	ETOH
CP imaging	CT	CT/ERCP	CT/ERCP	CT	CT/ERCP	CT/ERCP	CT/ERCP	CT
Enzymes	no	no	yes	no	no	no	yes	yes
Insulin	no	no	yes	no	no	yes	yes	no
Narcotics	vicodin	vicodin	vicodin	vicodin	vicodin	darvocet	vicodin	vicodin
B Patients with chronic pancreatitis without pain
	Patient 1	Patient 2	Patient 3	Patient 4	Patient 5	Patient 6
Age	56	72	56	60	45	40
Race/gender	C-M	C-F	C-M	C-M	C-F	C-F
Cause of death	AMI	sepsis	AMI	pneumonia	sepsis	unknown
Comorbidities	CP	CP	IDDM/CP	CAD/CM/IDDM/CP	HIV/asthma/HTN	CP
CP etiology	ETOH	ETOH	idiopathic	idiopathic	ETOH	ETOH
CP imaging	CT/ERCP	RUQ-US	CT	CT	CT	CT
Enzymes	yes	yes	no	yes	no	yes
Insulin	yes	no	yes	yes	no	yes
C Control group
	Control 1	Control 2	Control 3	Control 4	Control 5	Control 6
Age	56	56	73	51	53	76
Race/gender	C-M	LA-F	C-F	LA-M	C-M	C-F
Cause of death	AMI	AMI	arrhythmia	AMI	PE	AMI
Comorbidities	HTN	CAD	CAD/HTN/DM	DM	CAD	CAD/HTN/DM

C = caucasian; LA = latin-american; B = black; M = male; F = female; ESRD = end stage renal disease; HCV = hepatitis C virus; COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; AMI = acute myocardial infarction; ESLD = end stage liver disease; HTN = hypertension; CAD = coronary artery disease; ca = cancer; ETOH = alcohol; ERCP = endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatogram; IDDM = insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus; CM = cardiomyopathy; HIV = human immunodeficiency virus

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