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Young patients with coeliac disease (CD) tend to develop juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) three times more often than does the general population, while adult CD patients appear to have rheumatoid arthritis (RA) nearly twice as often, reveals a study.

For individuals with obesity who are scheduled to undergo bariatric surgery, faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) from a lean donor does not appear to help reduce weight before or after the procedure, according to a study.

Weekly bepirovirsen treatment may help reduce HBsAg* and hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA levels in patients with chronic HBV infection, the phase IIb B-Clear study showed.

A noninvasive diagnostic approach that combines bowel ultrasound and faecal calprotectin test appears to be reliable for detecting disease recurrence in Crohn’s disease (CD) patients who have undergone ileo-cecal resection, according to a study.

Adherence to an overall healthy lifestyle appears to prevent a substantial proportion of inflammatory bowel disease, including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, as reported in a study.

There appears to be no significant association between serum uric acid (SUA) and major depressive disorder (MDD), suggest the results of a meta-analysis and two-sample bidirectional Mendelian randomization (MR) study.

Treatment with upadacitinib appears to produce improvements in ulcerative colitis (UC) symptoms as early as day 1, as shown in a recent study.