Oriana M. Damas

Experts in different fields across Latin American review and highlight selected abstracts presented at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) 2023 in Spanish…

SOCIETY: AGA

BACKGROUND The gut microbiome is central to Crohn’s disease (CD) pathogenesis but the relative contribution of different environmental factors to disease compositional variation is unknown…

INTRODUCTION: We aimed to investigate the relationship between consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and: 1) active symptomatic disease and 2) intestinal inflammation in a cohort of adults living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)…

We have shown that Activin A (activin), a TGF-β superfamily member, has pro-metastatic effects on colon cancer cells…

BACKGROUND: Although incidence of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is rising in underrepresented populations, including Hispanics, genetic studies of IBD have primarily focused on Northern European ancestral populations…

BACKGROUND: Crohn’s disease (CD) is characterized by chronic intestinal inflammation and dysbiosis. Diet plays a pivotal role in the development of CD and recent studies highlight the feasibility and effectiveness of specific diet interventions in improving symptoms…

Introduction: Diet plays an important role in ulcerative colitis (UC) yet there are no studies examining the role of diet as adjunctive therapy to medication…

SOCIETY: AGA While it is intuitive that inflammation of the bowel can be affected positively and negatively by diet, it is only recently that the underpinnings of diet on inflammatory bowel disease have been explored…