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The prevalence of metabolic-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD), detected by transient elastography, is alarmingly high among adolescents, researchers report in the February issue of Clinical Gastroenterology
SARS-CoV-2, by down-regulating intestinal angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), alters the intestinal microbiome and promotes leaky gut syndrome, increasing plasma bacterial lipopolysaccharides and/or peptidoglycans to
Of available treatments, topical steroids are most effective at inducing clinical and histologic remission in patients with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE, in about two-thirds of patients),
Tuft cells inhibit progression of inflammation-induced pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PanIN) to pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA), researchers report in the November issue of Gastroenterology. These unique
The Fall edition of the AGA Clinician’s Companion—the new go-to resource for busy clinicians who can’t afford to spend hours sifting through research to find clinical value—is
Google searches for specific, common gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms correlated with incidence of COVID-19 in the first weeks of the pandemic in 5 states with high
Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 have alterations in their fecal mycobiomes, including enrichment of fungal pathogens from the genera Candida and Aspergillus, compared with controls researchers report in the October
Pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) have a low risk of severe COVID-19, even when receiving biologic and/or other immune suppressive therapies, researchers report
In patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and not initially intubated, use of famotidine is associated with a 2-fold reduction in clinical deterioration leading to intubation or
Eight weeks treatment with glecaprevir-pibrentasvir was efficacious and well tolerated in treatment-naive patients with all hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype infections, with or without cirrhosis,
Dr. Kristine Novak is a science writer and editor based in San Francisco. She has extensive experience covering gastroenterology, hepatology, immunology, oncology, clinical, and biotechnology research discoveries.
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