Specialty Digestive Health
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Colorectal Cancer Screening Guidelines Get an Update
With input from a Massachusetts General Hospital gastroenterologist, new colonoscopy guidelines update the ages to begin and end colorectal cancer screening.
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Virtual Tai Chi Training Feasible, Effective for Patients With IBS-Constipation
Kyle D. Staller, MD, MPH, Braden Kuo, MD, and colleagues created a virtual, group-based Tai Chi program adapted for patients who have irritable bowel syndrome with constipation. In a proof-of-concept study, feasibility of recruitment was excellent, and 67% of 27 participants attended at least seven of eight sessions.
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Changes in Insulin Receptor Condensates Contribute to Insulin Resistance
Jesse M. Platt, PhD, MD, and colleagues discovered that insulin receptor forms condensates and detailed how changes in the physio-mechanical features of insulin receptor condensates affect insulin resistance, showing that insulin receptor condensates are key for insulin signaling, become dysfunctional in insulin resistance and thus could be new targets for diabetes drugs.
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Cardiovascular Disease Risk Elevated in Children and Young Adults With NAFLD
Tracey G. Simon, MD, MPH, and colleagues have provided the first nationwide estimate of cardiovascular risk in children and young adults with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, finding the disease doubles the risk of incident major adverse cardiovascular events and triples the risk of incident arrhythmia.
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Risk Factors Identified for Cardiovascular Disease in Individuals With Hepatic Steatosis
Kathleen E. Corey, MD, MPH, MMSc, Júlia Karády, MD, and colleagues conducted the first study of risk factors for cardiovascular disease risk in patients with hepatitis steatosis based on comprehensive baseline profiling as well as prospective analysis of major adverse cardiovascular events.
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Embryonic Alcohol Exposure Disrupts the Ubiquitin–Proteasome System
Wolfram Goessling, MD, PhD, Olivia Weeks, PhD, and colleagues provide evidence from a zebrafish model that alcohol exposure disrupts protein homeostasis during fetal development, and abnormal function of the ubiquitin-proteasome system can contribute to the development of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
Digestive Health Contributors
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Andrew T. Chan, MD, MPH
Daniel K. Podolsky Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Director for Cancer Epidemiology, Mass General Cancer Center, Chief, Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine
Recent Article
Maternal Consumption of Ultra-processed Foods Linked to Weight Gain in Offspring
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Angela K. Fitch, MD
Associate Director, Mass General Weight Center
Recent Article
Personalized Patient Care for the Treatment of Obesity
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Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan, MBBS, MPH
Director of the Crohn's and Colitis Center, Division of Gastroenterology, Mass General, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Consensus Statement: Lifestyle and Behavior Modification for Management of IBD
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Cristina R. Ferrone, MD
Surgical Director of the Liver Program, Division of General Surgery, Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Advances in Liver Surgery at the Mass General Liver Center
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Daniel C. Chung, MD
Clinical Chief, Gastrointestinal Unit, Director, High-Risk GI Cancer Clinic
Recent Article
Pilot Study: Virtual Reality Is a Feasible Alternative to Narcotics During Colonoscopy
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Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA
Obesity Medicine Physician for Adults, Adolescents, and Children, Mass General Weight Center, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Affiliated Faculty, MGH Mongan Institute of Health Policy and Associate, MGH Disparities Solution Center
Recent Article
Review: Weight Regulation in Menopause
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Hamed Khalili, MD, MPH
Gastroenterologist, Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Director of Clinical Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the Division of Gastroenterology, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Initiating Oral Contraception Does Not Change Gut Microbiome in Healthy Women
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Kathleen E. Corey, MD, MPH, MMSc
Director, Fatty Liver Clinic, Mass General Gastrointestinal Unit, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Risk Factors Identified for Cardiovascular Disease in Individuals With Hepatic Steatosis
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Matthew M. Hutter, MD, MBA, MPH
Medical Director, Codman Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Patient-reported Weight Agrees With Clinic Data One Year After Metabolic/Bariatric Surgery
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Ramnik Joseph Xavier, MD, PhD
Director, Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Kurt Isselbacher Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Multi-omics Approach Detects Gut Microbiome–mediated Metabolism Effects on Immunity
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Richard Aaron Hodin, MD
Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Chief, Division of Gastrointestinal and Oncologic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
Recent Article
Improving Patient Outcomes with J-Pouch Surgery
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Tracey G. Simon, MD, MPH
Hepatologist, Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Cardiovascular Disease Risk Elevated in Children and Young Adults With NAFLD
Digestive Healthcare at Mass General
The Massachusetts General Hospital Digestive Healthcare Center is a collaborative practice of gastroenterologists, endoscopists, surgeons, radiologists, pathologists, hepatologists, oncologists and radiation oncologists dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of digestive diseases.