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A recent study has demonstrated the importance of gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms as a clinical morbidity and that these symptoms are associated with increasing age, duration of type 1 diabetes (T1D), haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), and microvascular complications, but not with autoimmune comorbidities including coeliac disease (CD).

In the treatment of paediatric alopecia areata (AA), an autoimmune, nonscarring hair loss disorder with a variable disease course and significant psychosocial impact, the most preferred first-line agent is topical corticosteroids, followed by contact immunotherapy, according to a study.

Young, premenopausal women with long or irregular menstrual cycles are at an increased risk of both prevalent and incident nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), reveals a study.

Preoperative radiotherapy (preop RT), followed by skin-sparing mastectomy and immediate deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap reconstruction, is technically feasible and safe in breast cancer patients who require mastectomy, the PRADA* trial suggests.

Infants of mothers with Zika virus infection suffer from various neurodevelopmental sequelae during childhood, particularly in terms of language, a new study reveals.