My mentor was back in town this week and completely redirected what I was looking at number wise. Instead of just looking at patients who have hypertriglyceridemia and acute pancreatitis, as well as patients that have hypertriglyceridemia and chronic pancreatitis separately he instructed me to look at those that have hypertriglyceridemia and any pancreatitis at all. I also discovered something tangentially interesting to my project. There was little to no statistical significance to the primary procedure the patients under went. Meaning of some 350 patients that had a primary procedure listed very few of them had anything to do with their hypertriglyceridemia or pancreatitis. Basically this means that patients came in with things from a broken leg to a chest pain and doctors did things to treat those main issues while still noting through lab work the variable that I'm looking at. I just found it really cool that hospitals have the resources to record things like triglyceride levels that allows for further research about tangential conditions.
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