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

1 Department of Physiology and Pharmacology ‘Vittorio Erspamer’, La Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy 2 Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, ‘Federico II’ University of Naples, Naples, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Background GI cancers pose an increasing global health burden, with their impact on the working-age population (WAP) aged 15–64 years remaining largely unexplored despite the crucial role of this ...

1 Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany 2 Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany 3 Institute of Pathology, University Bonn, Bonn, Germany ...

Background The aetiology and pathogenesis of IBD are intricate, involving genetic and environmental factors. Notably, cigarette smoking has contrasting effects, being detrimental to Crohn’s disease ...

Department of Internal Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta-Tukinowa, Otsu 520-2192, Japan Correspondence to: Dr A Andoh, Department of Internal Medicine, Shiga University of Medical ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Intestinal metaplasia (IM) is a common finding at the oesophagogastric junction, but the aetiopathogenesis of the different IM subtypes—that is, incomplete IM (specialised columnar ...

Correspondence to: MrC D Johnson University Surgical Unit, Mail Point 816, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton BH24 4EW, UK; c.d.johnsonsoton.ac.uk If you wish ...