DDW top 10: Gallstone disease, benefits of dog ownership, alcoholic hepatitis

Here are Healio’s top 10 peer-tested articles from Digestive Disease Week 2022, which highlight research on restrictive diets, gallstone disease, dog ownership and Crohn’s disease, COVID-19 antibody response and more.Two restrictive diets were superior in reducing symptoms compared with optimized medical treatment alone in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.“There are several different treatment options that are effective in alleviating symptoms of IBS, and dietary treatment indeed can be encouraged as a first-line treatment option,” Sanna Nybacka, RD, PhD, of theRead More

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