Chaoqun Ma

Global epidemiological discordance between GBD-defined biliary disease and pancreatitis reveals descriptive Pancreatitis Escape patterns with distinct exposure profiles

Background: Gallstone disease and pancreatitis are clinically linked, yet population-level estimates for GBD-defined gallbladder and biliary diseases are not a direct surrogate for gallstone pancreatitis risk. The global architecture of co-occurrence and epidemiological discordan...