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Background The prevalence of chronic constipation is increased in females and with age or environmental (low temperature), racial, socioeconomic, and habitual risk factors.
Hiroshi Mihara +7 more
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Ovarian cancer risk and use of phenolphthalein-containing laxatives
Purpose Experimental studies in rodents demonstrated the carcinogenic potential of phenolphthalein, the active ingredient in some laxatives, administered at doses similar to the dose that could be used by humans.
Longnecker, Matthew P. +2 more
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Sleep Health in Bulimia Nervosa: A Systematic Review
ABSTRACT Objective Research on sleep in bulimia nervosa (BN) is methodologically varied and yields inconsistent findings. This review synthesised BN‐sleep studies and examined whether comorbid mood disorders contribute to sleep disturbance. Method PsycINFO, Medline (Ovid), and Scopus were searched for English or French quantitative studies comparing ...
Samantha Kenny +4 more
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ABSTRACT Objective Chronic malnutrition, hypothermia, and hormonal imbalance in anorexia nervosa (AN) may impair capillary structure and perfusion. This study aimed to describe the nailfold videocapillaroscopy (NVC) findings in adolescents with AN and atypical AN (AAN), to assess their association with Raynaud's phenomenon (RP), and evaluate ...
Muserref Kasap‐Cuceoglu +9 more
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The first part of the article discusses the issues of preoperative bowel preparation in older and oldest-old patients, with a particular emphasis on the safest drugs. The second part of the article presents the problem of chronic constipation as a
V. S. Ostapenko
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Effectiveness of laxatives in elderly - a cross sectional study in nursing homes [PDF]
Background Laxatives are efficient drugs, but the effectiveness has been questioned. In nursing homes, the prevalence of constipation is high and laxatives are commonly used drugs.
Lydersen, Stian +8 more
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Exogenous lipoid pneumonia secondary to repetitive micro-aspiration of paraffin oils laxatives
Lipoid pneumonia (LP) is a rare lung disease caused by the exposure and subsequent accumulation of lipidic substances in the lung. It can be classified in exogenous or endogenous and in acute and chronic.
MONDONI, Michele +8 more
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Abstract Anthocephalus cadamba (Kadamba) is a medicinally important tropical plant with well‐documented antioxidant, anti‐inflammatory, and antimicrobial properties. However, comparative evaluation of solvent extraction efficiency combined with computational validation of bioactive compounds remains limited.
Manisha Panchal +5 more
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Constipation needs to be treated
The article presents etiology, pathophysiology and epidemiology of constipation. The main groups of drugs that are used for this pathology are described in the section Treatment of Constipation.
E. Yu. Plotnikova, K. A. Krasnov
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ABSTRACT In Lynch syndrome, colonoscopy surveillance for colorectal cancer (CRC) is burdensome and post‐colonoscopy CRCs still occur. Unlike the faecal immunochemical test (FIT), gut metabolomic alterations including amino‐acids have shown potential as non‐invasive biomarkers for detecting both advanced and non‐advanced sporadic colorectal neoplasia ...
Roza C. M. Opperman +18 more
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