Clinical characteristics of acute pancreatitis in children: a single-center experience in Western China

BMC Gastroenterology

Table 1 Characteristics of patients in recurrence and non-recurrence groups

Variables	Recurrence group	Non-recurrence group	p Value
Variables	n = 19	n = 111	p Value
Age, years	11.2 ± 4.2	11.3 ± 4.2	0.926^a
Sex, n%			0.001^b
Male	4 (5.6%)	68 (94.4%)
Female	15 (25.9%)	43 (74.1%)
Etiology, n%
Biliary	5 (12.2%)	36 (87.8%)	0.804^b
Idiopathic	6 (16.2%)	31 (83.8%)	0.745^b
Trauma	3 (14.3%)	18 (85.7%)	0.963^b
Hypertriglyceridemia	5 (41.7%)	7 (58.3%)	0.016^c
Viral infection	0 (0%)	13 (100%)	0.116^b
Drug-induced	0 (0%)	6 (100%)	0.299^b
Severity, n%			0.034^d
MAP	11 (11.5%)	85 (88.5%)
MASP	6 (20%)	24 (80%)
SAP	2 (50%)	2 (50%)
Complication, n%
APFC	7 (36.8%)	16 (14.4%)	0.044^c
ANC	3 (15.8%)	3 (2.7%)	0.040^c
PPC	2 (14.3%)	12 (85.7%)	1.000^c
SIRS	4 (21.2%)	8 (7.2%)	0.075^c

^aMann-Whitney U test
^bChi-square test
^cFisher’s exact test
^dTrend Chi-squared test
MAP: mild acute pancreatitis, MASP: moderately-severe acute pancreatitis, SAP: severe acute pancreatitis, APFC: acute peripancreatic fluid collection, ANC: acute necrotic collection, PPC: pancreatic pseudocyst, SIRS: systemic inflammatory response syndrome

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