PANCREATITIS IN GALLSTONE PATIENTS: IS THERE ANY LINK BETWEEN DIET AND DISEASE?

Objective: Acute pancreatitis is most often caused by gall-stones. There is no clear relationship between diet and gallstone pancreatitis. The purpose of this research was to examine di-etary differences in pancreatitis patients with gallstones.Material and Method: Patients with acute biliary pancreatitis and patients with gallstones without pancreatitis were included in this prospective case-control study. Groups were set to be similar in case numbers, age, gender, and gallbladder stone size. A three-day food consumption questionnaire and a food consumption frequency questionnaire were applied to all volunteers. The BeBis 8 Full version program was used to evaluate body mass index, alcohol and cigarette consumption status, daily physical activity status, eating frequency, and food consumption status.Result: A total of 120 patients, including 60 patients who devel-oped pancreatitis due to gallstones, and 60 patients who only had gallstones were included in the study. Among the demo-graphic data, monthly income was statistically higher in pan-creatitis. In addition, it was found that the daily milk-yoghurt, red meat, chicken, salami-sausage, egg, rice-pasta, protein, fat, and cholesterol intakes of patients with pancreatitis were sig-nificantly higher. In the multivariate logistic regression analysis, it was determined that the increase in daily milk-yoghurt, egg, rice-pasta and protein intake were independent risk factors.Conclusion: Reducing the consumption of red meat, eggs, fat, cholesterol, milk-yoghurt, rice and pasta, salami and sausage in people with gallstones may reduce the incidence of acute pan-creatitis in these individuals.