Background Globally, an estimated 296 million individuals live with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, carrying ...

BACKGROUND Crohn's disease is a heterogeneous disorder with both a genetic and environmental aetiology. Clinical classifications of the disease, such as the newly proposed Vienna classification, may ...

Objective IBD therapies and treatments are evolving to deeper levels of remission. Molecular measures of disease may augment current endpoints including the potential for less invasive assessments.

Correspondence to Professor Shiv Kumar Sarin, Hepatology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi 110070, India; shivsarin{at}gmail.com Objectives Beta-blockers and endoscopic ...

Zhou and colleagues published an observational study on the beneficial effects of statin use in steatotic liver disease.1 Using a large, multicentre database, the author reported that statin use in ...

Background: Identification of patients at risk for mortality early in the course of acute pancreatitis (AP) is an important step in improving outcome. Methods: Using Classification and Regression Tree ...

Correspondence to Marc G Besselink, Department of Surgery, Amsterdam Gastroenterology and Metabolism, AMC Amsterdam, 22660, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; m.g.besselink{at}amc.uva.nl Acute pancreatitis ...

Correspondence to Dr Debabrata Mukhopadhyay, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA; mukhopadhyay.debabrata{at ...

Objectives Gastro-oesophageal reflux symptoms are common in the community, but there has been no definitive systematic review and meta-analysis of data from all studies to estimate their global ...

a Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA, b Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the UCLA School of ...

Objective To describe the patient characteristics, diagnoses and clinical outcomes of patients presenting with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (AUGIB) in the 2007 UK Audit. Design Multi-centre ...

Objective Mutations in presenilin genes are the major cause of Alzheimer’s disease. However, little is known about their expression and function in the gut. In this study, we identify the presenilins ...