Fibre has been shown to exert a number of benefits on gastrointestinal (GI) health, yet its intake is low. Addition of novel fibres to food products may increase fibre intake and improve gut health. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the influence of three novel fibres on GI outcomes in healthy human subjects. A total of twenty healthy participants (ten men and ten women) with n...

UNLABELLED Many female patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are affected during their reproductive years, and the benefits of continuing medical therapy to maintain remission during pregnancy generally outweigh the risks of therapy cessation. Knowledge of the current guidelines is important to maximize maternal and fetal outcomes. METHODS A total of 116 practitioners (family medicin...

Despite the fact that nonmotor symptoms (NMS) like gastrointestinal (GI) complaints are frequently reported in Parkinson's disease (PD), no therapeutic guidelines are available. This study aimed to manage some lower GI-NMS in a group of patients with PD. A total of 40 patients (17 males, 23 females; mean age 76.05±2.09 years) were randomly selected for this study. Patients were confirmed to hav...

We speculated that a diet with a high glycemic index (GI) or a diet with a low nutrient density (nutrient-to-calorie ratio) would enhance colon carcinogenesis, presumably via increased insulin resistance. Forty-eight Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats received an azoxymethane injection (20 mg/kg) and were randomized into five groups given an AIN-76 diet containing 1) 65% starch by weight, 2) 65% glucose ...

BACKGROUND Gastrointestinal (GI) tract symptoms are common among patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) seen in tertiary care centers. The degree to which this reflects referral bias is unclear. OBJECTIVES To determine whether GI tract symptoms are more prevalent in unselected patients with DM from the general community compared with their age- and sex-matched counterparts without DM and to ass...

BACKGROUND Noroviruses are an important cause of gastroenteritis but little is known about disease and re-infection rates in community settings in Asia. METHODS Disease, re-infection rates, strain prevalence and genetic susceptibility to noroviruses were investigated in a birth cohort of 373 Indian children followed up for three years. Stool samples from 1856 diarrheal episodes and 147 vomiti...

upper gi endoscopy

background: in medicine, especially in pediatrics, it is necessary to perform regular epidemiologic studies in different geographic regions. this study was performed in nemazee hospital, shiraz, southern iran to determine the gastrointestinal (gi) disease spectrum, the mortality and also the rate of matching final diagnosis with the initial impression in pediatric gi ward. â  methods: of all th...

aim : the study aims to document the oral lesions in patients with uc. background : inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) is comprised of two chronic, tissue-destructive and clinical entities including crohn's disease (cd) and ulcerative colitis (uc), both of which are immunologically based. patients and methods : the population of the study includes fifty patients with uc, as the experimental group...