Exploring University Food Environment and On-Campus Food Purchasing Behaviors, Preferences, and Opinions.

Objective: Cross-sectional observation of a university food environment and a survey of food purchasing preferences, behaviors, and opinions of students and staff to formulate strategies for interventions.

Design: A modified food environment-quality index was used to assess food outlets. A cross-sectional survey with closed (n = 42) and open-ended (n = 2) questions assessing students and staff purchasing, choice determinants, and opinions about the food environment.

Derivation and validation of the prediabetes self-assessment screening score after acute pancreatitis (PERSEUS).

Background And Aim: Approximately 40% of patients develop abnormal glucose metabolism after a single episode of acute pancreatitis. This study aimed to develop and validate a prediabetes self-assessment screening score for patients after acute pancreatitis.

Methods: Data from non-overlapping training (n=82) and validation (n=80) cohorts were analysed.

Glucose Variability Measures as Predictors of Oral Feeding Intolerance in Acute Pancreatitis: A Prospective Pilot Study.

Background: Oral feeding intolerance (OFI) is a common complication in patients with acute pancreatitis (AP). Variations in blood glucose are associated with impaired gastrointestinal function but, to date, measures of glucose variability have not been investigated to predict OFI in patients with AP.

Aim: To investigate the usefulness of several glucose variability measures in predicting the occurrence of OFI early in the course of AP.

Towards reducing the risk of new onset diabetes after pancreatitis.

Metabolic abnormalities due to acute and chronic pancreatitis are common. In particular, post-pancreatitis diabetes mellitus (PPDM) is increasingly recognized as a distinct clinical entity. However, most of the research in this field is focused on unravelling the pathogenesis of PPDM whereas research frontiers are rarely extended to reducing the risk of new onset diabetes after pancreatitis (NODAP).