Parenteral Nutrition Combined with Enteral Nutrition for Severe Acute Pancreatitis

Table 1

Characteristics of study patients.

	Group I	Group II	P value
	n = 59	n = 71
Age in years (average)	51	52.5
Male	27	31
Female	32	40
Etiology
Gallstones	25 (49.01%)	34 (47.88%)
Alcohol	21 (41.17%)	28 (39.43%)
Idiopathic	3 (5.88%)	6 (8.45%)
Drug Induced	2 (3.92%)	3 (4.22%)
Duration of symptom of disease at the time of admission (days in mean ± SD and range)	2.63 ± 0.73 (1–5)	2.77 ± 1.01 (1–5)	0.247^a

aMann-Whitney U-Test.