1 Dietetics, Guys and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTFT), London, UK 2 Upper GI Surgery, Guys and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTFT), London, UK Introduction Weight loss is a predictor of ...

Objective Developing a small animal model that accurately delineates the natural history of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and immunopathophysiology is necessary to clarify the mechanisms of ...

Correspondence to Wouter J den Hollander, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands; w.j.denhollander{at}gmail.com Objective ...

2 Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital, Tokyo, Japan 3 Department of Internal Medicine, GI Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 4 ...

Objective Dietary fibres are essential for maintaining microbial diversity and the gut microbiota can modulate host physiology by metabolising the fibres. Here, we investigated whether the soluble ...

Objective Microscopic colitis (MC) is a common cause of chronic diarrhoea, often with additional symptoms. No validated instruments exist to assess disease activity in MC, making it difficult to ...

Objective Patients with renal failure suffer from symptoms caused by uraemic toxins, possibly of gut microbial origin, as deduced from studies in animals. The aim of the study is to characterise ...

a Department of Gastroenterology, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, 369 Fulham Road, London SW10, UK, b Department of Cystic Fibrosis, The Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London SW3 Dr D ...

Correspondence to: Dr S A Riley Department of Gastroenterology, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield S5 7AU, UK; stuart.rileysth.nhs.uk Oesophageal dilators or bougies ...

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has rapidly become the most common chronic liver disease globally and is currently estimated to affect up to 38% of the global adult population. NAFLD is a ...

Correspondence to Professor Dominik Bettenworth, Department of Medicine B, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital of Münster, Münster D-48149, Germany; ...

Objective The microbiome contributes to the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) but the relative contribution of different lifestyle and environmental factors to the compositional ...