Researchers have linked upper gastrointestinal tract damage to a higher risk for developing Parkinson’s disease. The report, published Sept. 5 in JAMA Network Open, showed that mucosal damage seen on ...

Patients on GLP-1 or GLP-1/GIP agonists had significant residual gastric volume if the medication was not held prior to upper endoscopy, unless they were on a clear liquid diet the previous day, ...

A risk-based screening strategy shows high efficacy and significant reductions in cost in the detection of upper gastrointestinal cancers compared with conventional universal screening, results from a ...

Response and remission rates to immunosuppressive therapy was similar in Crohn disease (CD) with upper gastrointestinal (GI) involvement or extensive CD (ECD), according to study ...

Upper GI mucosal damage was tied to a 76% higher risk of subsequent Parkinson's disease. The retrospective study followed GI patients for nearly 15 years. The findings support literature suggesting ...

In a small 10-week study, patients who took 70 mg of alendronate once weekly did not show increased endoscopic evidence of upper gastrointestinal pathology compared with placebo recipients (Journal ...

Using data from the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (HPFS), Dr. Qiao-Li Wang and colleagues recently set out to further characterize the association between ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Chan and colleagues assessed data on 19,114 patients from Aspree, an aspirin primary prevention trial. In the ...

The rate of esophageal and gastric erosions among patients on dialysis eligible for anemia treatment was approximately 49 events per 100 patient-years, investigators report. Upper gastrointestinal (GI ...