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Individuals with fatty pancreas appear to be at heightened risk of developing subsequent diabetes mellitus, but not hypertension or dyslipidaemia, as suggested in a study.

The consumption of fructose from fruit juice and sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs), but not from fruit, is associated with higher intrahepatic lipid (IHL) content, according to data from a cross-sectional study presented at EASD 2021.

Use of linaclotide results in a significant reduction in several abdominal symptoms, such as bloating, discomfort, and pain, among patients with constipation-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-C) as compared with placebo, according to a study. In addition, reported adverse events (AEs) are in line with the established safety profile.

Neither gastric cancer nor gastric dysplasia is seen in patients with corpus atrophic gastritis (CAG) characterized at baseline with corpus pseudopyloric metaplasia (PPM) without corpus intestinal metaplasia (IM) because such lesions are consistently associated with corpus IM, reports a study.

Acute pancreatitis has seen a steady increase in worldwide incidence over the last five decades, particularly in Western countries, a recent study has found.