Objective We performed a meta-analysis of observational studies to quantify the magnitude of the association between non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and risk of extrahepatic cancers. Design ...

Correspondence to Professor Bernd Schnabl, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA; beschnabl{at}ucsd.edu The spectrum of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) ...

Cirrhotic portal hypertension is characterised by development of the decompensating events of ascites, encephalopathy, portal hypertensive bleeding and hepatorenal syndrome, which arise in a setting ...

1 Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine; and GROW, School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht The ...

Correspondence to Dr Markus Casper, Department of Medicine II, Saarland University Medical Center, Saarland University, 66421 Homburg, Germany; markus.casper{at}uks.eu Conventional white-light ...

Correspondence to Julien Kirchgesner, Service de Gastroentérologie et Nutrition, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, 184 rue du faubourg Saint-Antoine, Paris 75012, France; ...

Objective To appraise the evidence that pathophysiological mechanisms and individualised treatment directed at those mechanisms provide an alternative approach to the treatment of patients with ...

Correspondence to Dr Melina Arnold, Section of Cancer Surveillance, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, Lyon 69008, France; arnoldm{at}fellows.iarc.fr Objective The ...

Objective Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a multifactorial immune-mediated inflammatory disease of the intestine, comprising Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. By characterising metabolites ...

Objectives The incidence of gastric cancer continues to decrease globally, approaching levels that in some populations could define it as a rare disease. To explore this on a wider scale, we predict ...

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Dr Helmut Friess, Department of Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University of Bern, Inselspital, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland. Email: helmut.friess{at}insel.ch BACKGROUND Nerve growth factor (NGF), ...