Through the ESPRESSO cohort, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, University of Newcastle, Australia, University of Washington, Seattle, and Karolinska Institutet examined the risk ...

Diverticular disease is one of the most common and yet puzzling conditions that come with middle age. Even the terminology can be confusing: Diverticulosis refers to small pouches that develop in the ...

Could smoking be a risk factor for diverticular disease? The authors examined data from 35,809 Swedish women who participated in a large mammography screening trial. Data on smoking and other ...

Patients with diverticular disease have a 33% increased risk of overall cancer, researchers have found, which is equivalent to one extra cancer case per 16 patients with diverticular disease followed ...

More than half of adults in the Western hemisphere over the age of 40 have small bulging pouches inside their intestine known as diverticula. Caused by weakening of the outer lining of the intestine, ...

Diverticular disease encompasses a spectrum from asymptomatic diverticulosis to complicated diverticulitis, affecting predominantly older populations worldwide. Diverticulosis arises when mucosal and ...

University of Queensland researchers have used genetics to reveal that much of the risk of developing a common and sometimes fatal intestinal disease is inherited. Dr Yeda Wu and Professor Naomi Wray ...

A WOMAN was hospitalised after a common condition caused her bowel to rupture, leaving her just 12 hours from death. When Clare Large, 42, started experiencing extreme labour-like pains one night, ...

AD is highly prevalent, particularly among those older than 65, and is associated with a high burden of morbidity, mortality, and health care costs. The presentation of diverticulitis often overlaps ...

Pope Francis resumed his weekly appearances from a Vatican window to bless the faithful 2 weeks after undergoing surgery on July 4. The pontiff had nearly half of his colon removed due to severe ...