Clinical relationship between serum triglycerides and acute pancreatitis

Published data concerning the relation between serum TG and AP are scarce and most of them lack of a great sample size. [...]we appreciate the work from Pascual et al. In a recent systematic review of 34 published studies on TG and AP [12] the authors claim that the severity of AP in relation to TG was heterogeneously reported due to the different metrics used; they conclude that it may be possible that higher levels of TG lead to more severe clinical outcomes in AP; however, they state that larger and more specifically focused cohort studies with severity standardized measurements are needed. [...]the large series by Pascual et al.