The Association of Metabolic Risk Factors with Advanced Adenomas in Hispanic Patients.

Background: Obesity and metabolic syndrome (MetS) have been implicated as rising risk factors for the development of colorectal cancers. A rapid increase in the prevalence of obesity and severe obesity among Hispanic patients in the United States may present substantially increased risk for advanced colorectal neoplasia in this population. Currently, there is very little research in this area.

Endobariatrics: a Still Underutilized Weight Loss Tool.

Purpose Of Review: Bariatric and metabolic endoscopic therapies provide an option for patients seeking clinically significant weight loss with fewer adverse events than conventional bariatric surgery. Our aims are to provide an overview of the current state of primary endoscopic treatment options for weight loss and to emphasize the importance of including these therapies when presenting weight loss options to qualified patients.

Recent Findings: Bariatric endoscopy procedures are associated with a lower adverse event rate when compared to bariatric surgery and result in more weight loss than most existing pharmacotherapies approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

Liver Transplantation for Acetaminophen-Induced Acute Liver Failure: Role of Psychiatric Comorbidity in Listing Decisions and Outcomes.

Background: Psychiatric co-morbidities are thought to deter listing of patients with acetaminophen-induced acute liver failure (APAP-ALF) for liver transplantation (LT). We examined the listing process and short-term outcomes via a cohort study of APAP-ALF patients with and without psychiatric comorbidity.

Methods: We analyzed listing determinants, listing rates, and short-term (21-day) outcomes in APAP-ALF patients with and without psychiatric comorbidity (mental illness and/or substance abuse) enrolled in the ALFSG registry between 2000 and 2016.

Primary Care Provider Practice Patterns and Barriers to Hepatocellular Carcinoma Surveillance.

Background & Aims: Low rates of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) surveillance are primarily due to provider-related process failures. However, few studies have evaluated primary care provider (PCP) practice patterns, attitudes, and barriers to HCC surveillance at academic tertiary care referral centers.

Methods: We conducted a web-based survey of PCPs at 2 tertiary care referral centers (133 providers) from June 2017 through December 2017.

Cross-sectional analysis of patient phone calls to an inflammatory bowel disease clinic.

Background: Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) require close follow up and frequently utilize healthcare services. We aimed to identify the main reasons that prompted patient calls to gastroenterology providers and further characterize the "frequent callers".

Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional study included all phone calls registered in medical records of IBD patients during 2012.

Reference fitness values in the untrained spinal cord injury population.

Objective: Establish reference values of cardiorespiratory fitness applicable to the general, untrained spinal cord injury (SCI) population.

Design: Data were retroactively obtained from 12 studies (May 2004 to May 2012).

Setting: An institution-affiliated applied physiology research laboratory.