Gastric

Too much alcohol may result in gastric disease.

He died of gastric cancer.

Tom was diagnosed with gastric cancer.

Tom died of gastric cancer.

Tom has been diagnosed with gastric cancer.

Causes of GI bleeding include gastric ulcers, artery or vein (arteriovenous) malformations, diverticulosis, cancer or inflammatory bowel disease.

Gastric surgeons at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston are recruiting normal-weight or thin diabetic patients for a study of a surgical procedure called ileal transposition.

Given the urgency of the problem, researchers have turned to stomach or bariatric surgery for diabetic patients. In two studies published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at Ohio's Cleveland Clinic report surgery that reduced the size of the stomach — typically performed to remove cancerous tumors or speed weight loss in the morbidly obese — also reversed diabetes in 40 percent of patients. Italian researchers, reporting on the results of a more radical gastric procedure, say 75 percent of diabetes patients in their study went into remission, while 95 percent were effectively cured.

This isn’t the first time she has hidden a weight-loss management attempt from her husband. “I went to Turkey and had a gastric balloon, and I didn’t tell anyone, not even him,” she says.