Table 2.

Frequency of etiologies

Cause	Number of cases	Percent (%)
Alcohol	433	45.7
Idiopathic	155	16.4
Biliary	144	15.2
Hypertriglyceridemia	33	3.5
Diabetes mellitus	28	3.0
Pharmacological	25	2.6
Mixed (alcohol & biliary)	21	2.2
Mixed (alcohol & diabetes mellitus)	21	2.2
Mixed (alcohol & hypertriglyceridemia)	18	1.9
Mixed (hypertriglyceridemia & diabetes mellitus)	17	1.8
Ischemic	14	1.5
Extra pancreatic anomalies	13	1.4
Other (trauma, IBD, intrapancreatic anomalies etc.)	25	2.6

IBD: Inflammatory bowel disease.