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Prevalence and outcomes of acute pancreatitis in COVID-19: a meta-analysis
  1. Feng Yang1,
  2. Yuting Huang2,
  3. Tian Li3,
  4. Yunting Fu4,
  5. Chenyu Sun5,
  6. Yecheng Xu1,
  7. John Windsor6,
  8. Deliang Fu1
  1. 1 Department of Pancreatic Surgery, Huashan Hospital Fudan University, Shanghai, Shanghai, China
  2. 2 Department of Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  3. 3 Department of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Health and Science University, New York City, New York, USA
  4. 4 Health Sciences and Human Services Library, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  5. 5 Internal Medicine, AMITA Health Saint Joseph Hospital Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  6. 6 Surgical and Translational Research Centre, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
  1. Correspondence to Dr Feng Yang, Department of Pancreatic Surgery, Huashan Hospital Fudan University, Shanghai, Shanghai, China; yffudan98{at}126.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2021-325941

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    The study by Pandanaboyana et al 1 showed that acute pancreatitis (AP) patients with COVID-19 had a significantly higher mortality than those without COVID-19. Nevertheless, a similar trend of mortality was found by another observational cohort study.2 The true prevalence and outcomes of AP in patients with COVID-19 are not known. The aim of this study was to conduct a meta-analysis to determine the pooled prevalence and clinical outcomes of AP in patients with COVID-19.

    PubMed, Embase, Scopus and Cochrane library were searched for outcome studies of adult patients with AP and COVID-19 published before 15 September 2021 (online supplemental file 1). Excluded were studies that either did not use the revised Atlanta criteria for AP diagnosis or reported patients with COVID-19 with a prior history of pancreatitis. Patients were divided into three groups: group I—AP with COVID-19, group II—AP without COVID-19 and group III—COVID-19 without AP. The primary endpoint was mortality (both in-hospital or 30-day). Secondary endpoints were pooled prevalence of AP and other clinical outcomes. The overall pooled prevalence and mortality were assessed for group I with a random-effects model and Freeman–Tukey …

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    • Collaborators None.

    • Contributors Concept and design: FY, JW and DF; acquisition, analysis and interpretation of data: FY, YH, TL, YF, CS, YX, JW and DF; drafting of the manuscript: FY; critical revision of the manuscript: JW and DF. All authors finally approved the manuscript.

    • Funding The research was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China No.2017YFC1308604 (Dr Yang).

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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