Malnutrition after pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy in chronic pancreatitis: Risk factors in real world practice.

Background: RCTs that have shown improvement in coefficient of fat absorption with pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT) have seldom evaluated the impact on overall nutritional status.

Objective: In this study we evaluated factors responsible for persistence of malnutrition after PERT.

Methods: In this cross-sectional observational study, patients were enrolled based on predefined enrolment criteria.