Study on the Predictive Value of Abdominal Fat Content and Distribution in the Acute Pancreatitis and Its Severity

Background Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a common acute abdominal abdomen, and severe AP has considerable mortality. Early and accurate identification of AP is critical for the prevention, treatment and prognosis evaluation of AP. Studies have shown that obesity is associated with the incidence and clinical outcome of AP. However, there is a lack of obesity-related quantitative indices for the diagnosis and evaluation of AP. Objective To investigate the relationship of abdominal fat content and distribution with AP and its severity, providing a scientific basis for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of AP. Methods One hundred AP patients (including 75 with non-severe AP and 25 with severe AP) and 100 non-AP patients〔AP was diagnosed by Chinese Guidelines for the Management of Acute Pancreatitis (Shenyang, 2019) 〕were selected from Department of General Surgery, the Southwest Hospital of AMU from January 2019 to June 2021. Clinical data were collected, including sex, age, underlying disease (hypertension, di