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Mediterranean diet linked to 24% reduction in CVD risk in women
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- Carolyn Crist
The researchers are calling for more sex-specific research to guide clinical practice.
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AI-assisted colonoscopy doesn’t always improve adenoma detection: Study
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- Carolyn Crist
“I’m not convinced that we have a good answer yet for where to go from here, but we need to keep working with our AI colleagues to figure out how...
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New clinical guideline for biliary strictures issued
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- Carolyn Crist
“The appropriate diagnosis and management of biliary strictures is still a big clinical challenge and has important implications in endoscopic,...
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TMEM16A, TMEM16F play crucial role in Paneth cell secretion
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- Carolyn Crist
Findings from a mouse study could aid developments in anti-inflammatory therapies for intestinal diseases.
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‘Breakthrough’ study: Diabetes drug helps prevent long COVID
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- Carolyn Crist
Metformin led to a 42% drop in long COVID among people who had a mild to moderate COVID-19 infection.
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Midwife-led care linked to positive outcomes across medical risk levels
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- Carolyn Crist
Midwifery clients were less likely to experience preterm births or have low-birth-weight babies and to experience cesarean deliveries or births...
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EoE: One-food elimination works as well as six-food elimination
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- Carolyn Crist
“The takeaway message is that one-food (milk) elimination is an effective treatment and a reasonable first-line treatment for EoE.”
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AGA clinical practice update: Telemedicine in gastroenterology
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- Carolyn Crist
Practice setting, geography, and complexity of care are key considerations for telemedicine visits.
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Mortality increases substantially with fibrosis stage in NAFLD
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- Carolyn Crist
The updated estimates indicate important implications for prognostication and trial design.
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Digital therapeutics could help patients with IBS
- Author:
- Carolyn Crist
These tools aren’t widely used by gastroenterologists yet, but the market is expected to grow broadly during the next decade.
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Pancreatic cancer incidence increases among young women in U.S.
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- Carolyn Crist
Additional studies are needed to investigate contributing factors, particularly race and tumor characteristics.
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Irregular sleep tied to markers of atherosclerosis
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- Carolyn Crist
‘Poor sleep is linked with several cardiovascular conditions.’
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Advanced imaging technology could help predict lung cancer progression after surgery
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- Carolyn Crist
“AI can predict clinical outcomes when combined with [imaging mass cytometry] with extremely high accuracy from a single 1-mm2 tumor core.”
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Novel celery seed–derived drug may improve stroke outcomes
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- Carolyn Crist
Patients treated with butylphthalide had fewer severe neurologic symptoms and better function 90 days after the stroke, compared with those...
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Exercise training reduces liver fat in patients with NAFLD, even without weight loss
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- Carolyn Crist
“Prior to our study, it was felt that body weight loss of at least 5% was required in order to significantly improve liver histology. Our findings...