1 Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2 Department of Gastroenterology, Ruijing Hospital North, School of Medicine, ...
Correspondence to Dr Barham K Abu Dayyeh, Clinical Enteric Neuroscience Translational and Epidemiological Research (C.E.N.T.E.R), Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, ...
1 Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Greenebaum Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, ...
Objective To determine whether proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer, compared with histamine-2 receptor antagonists (H2RAs). Design The United ...
1 Cancer Research UK Colorectal Cancer Unit, St Mark’s Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3UJ, UK 2 Wolfson Unit for Endoscopy, St Mark’s Hospital Most colon cancers are assumed to have a premalignant ...
Background: Three large randomised trials have shown that screening for colorectal cancer using faecal occult blood (FOB) tests can reduce the mortality from this disease. Two national pilot studies ...
Intestinal permeability was estimated in healthy subjects after ingestion of aspirin (1.2+1.2 g), ibuprofen (400+400 mg) and indomethacin (75+50 mg) at midnight and an hour before starting a ...
Correspondence to: Dr M Prince, Centre for Liver Research, 4th Floor William Leech Building, Newcastle University Medical School, Framlington Place, Newcastle NE2 4HH, UK; Martin.prince{at}ncl.ac.uk ...
Background and aims: Acid secretion plays an important role in the ecology of Helicobacter species and acid secretory status heralds patterns of gastritis. The presence of inflammatory cells and their ...
2 Microbiology and Tumour Biology Centre, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden 3 Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden 4 Microbiology and Tumour ...
In the past few years, optical magnification endoscopy and chromoscopy have gained renewed interest in the West as a means for the early detection of minute lesions in patients with Barrett’s ...
Background Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have higher pancreatic cancer (PC) risk. While aspirin has chemopreventive effects on digestive cancers, its effect on PC among patients with ...