In the case of two of the most common types of FGID involving the intestine, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and functional bloating, the distal small and proximal large intestine would be the ...

Conclusion—Bowel transit rate is a determinant of stool SCFA concentration including butyrate and distal colonic pH. This may explain the inter-relations between colonic cancer, dietary fibre intake, ...

Your risk of developing bowel (colon and rectal) cancer depends on many things including age, genetics and lifestyle factors. What is a risk factor? Anything that can increase your risk of getting a ...

Metastatic bowel cancer is cancer that has spread from the back passage (rectum) and large intestines (colon) to other parts of the body, such as the liver. Sometimes cancer has spread when it is ...

Rates of bowel cancer in younger adults have increased in countries around the world, though the trend appears to be most common in high-income nations. Previous studies have shown that bowel ...

AIMS To evaluate prospectively the dysplasia risk in patients with intestinal metaplasia of the distal oesophagus or within the gastric cardia ... based on the criteria established for inflammatory ...

Long considered a disease of older adults, bowel cancer is increasingly affecting younger generations across the globe. Cases of early-onset bowel cancer are climbing among people under 50 years ...

If bleeding from the distal stomach or proximal small bowel is suspected, a pediatric colonoscope or enteroscope may be used to evaluate the area. In addition, interventional angiography may be ...

“If someone, for years, has regular bowel movements every day ... you wipe that you see on the toilet paper is likely very distal, very close to the anal area and likely to be hemorrhoids ...

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a gastrointestinal (GI) disorder that causes symptoms like abdominal pain and bloating, as well as bowel movement changes like diarrhea, constipation, or both.