Excessive alcohol use is one of the two leading causes of acute pancreatitis, and a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says deaths from alcoholinduced acute pancreatitis increased by 50% between 2019 and 2020. 

The CDC says alcoholrelated deaths have increased over the last 20 years, but have risen more steeply in recent years. The most significant increases in rates were from alcoholinduced acute pancreatitis. 

"Pancreatitis, by definition, means inflammation of the pancreas," says Dr. Santhi Swaroop Vege, a gastroenterologist with the Mayo Clinic Pancreas Clinic. "They are broadly divided into two types — acute and chronic pancreatitis."
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