Statistics on pancreatitis indicate a high incidence of the disease. According to specialists, acute forms of the disease occur in 35-40 cases per 100 000 population. Thus, approximately 52 thousand people in Russia annually diagnosed with acute pancreatitis.
According to the world statistics every year, this disease causes 200 to 800 people per 1 million people. And experts say that the overwhelming majority of patients are men. Depending on the cause of the disease, the average age of the patients varies. If acute pancreatitis develops against the background of alcohol abuse, then this figure is 39 years, and if due to cholelithiasis - 69-70 years.
Statistics for this disease clearly shows a high level of mortality. It keeps on different data at the border of 20-25%.The main cause of death is the complications of the disease, which occur when its destructive flow.
Usually, the calculation of data on the acute form of the disease and pancreatonecrosis does not differ. In official sources there is no information on each of these ailments separately. But the researchers, as a result of their own analysis, found that necrosis occurs in 25% of patients. It is these patients who account for the majority of deaths.
At the same time, the statistics do not take into account the cases of mortality associated with violations in the cardiovascular system. Infarction, stroke and heart failure are often the result of a prolonged course of acute pancreatitis.
Pancreatitis statistics also indicate a high rate of increase in incidence. According to specialists, the acute form of this disease is ahead of all other ailments of the abdominal cavity. This is due to the main reasons for its development, since it is usually a consequence of alcoholism, but here statistics also clearly demonstrates the increase in the number of patients.
As we mentioned earlier, there are two main causes of the disease - alcohol abuse and cholelithiasis. The latter is the most common prerequisite for the development of this disease and is observed in 45% of patients. Chronic alcoholism and the development of exacerbation on the background of alcoholic excesses were detected in 35% of patients.
A positive point is the high percentage of verification of acute pancreatitis. The statistics speak about 75-80% of cases.