Table 2.

Factors involved with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency in different medical conditions[1,16,77,78,107,129,131,133,143,144,152-154,164]

Mechanism involved	Pancreatic cancer	Diabetes mellitus	Celiac disease	IBD	GI surgery
Normal pancreas		√	√	√	√
Abnormal pancreas	√	√	√	√
Low or absent pancreatic enzyme production	√	√	√	√	√
Lack of stimulus for pancreatic enzyme production			√	√	√
Postcibal asynchrony	√	√	√	√	√
Pancreatic or biliary tract abnormalities	√	√		√
GI malabsorption			√	√	√

EPI: Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency; GI: Gastrointestinal; IBD: Inflammatory bowel disease.