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(more in the genotype report)[ref] Symptoms of chronic pancreatitis can include periodic bouts of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, oily or fatty stools that smell foul, and eventual weight loss.[ref] However, not everyone with chronic pancreatitis has painful symptoms, with one study showing that 12% of chronic pancreatitis patients were painless.[ref] Both chronic and acute pancreatitis increase the risk of pancreatic cancer, with the highest risk within the first three years of diagnosis.[ref][ref] Additionally, having had an episode of acute pancreatitis more than doubles the risk of developing diabetes within the next five years.[ref] While mutations related to trypsin are usually the cause of chronic pancreatitis, a recent animal study showed that repeated activation of NF-kB (inflammatory pathway) was enough to cause chronic pancreatitis, even without the aberrant activation of trypsin.[ref] What is exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI)
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the light-harvesting complex-like protein OHP2, PGR 5, and chloroplast NDH
