Diabetes Therapy
Gastric emptying does not always bring relief in diabetic gastropathy
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, April 7th, 2003
According to a study from Australia, "The treatment of diabetic gastropathy, which here refers to a clinical syndrome of upper GI tract symptoms suggestive of an upper motility disturbance in diabetes whether or not there is delayed gastric emptying, remains suboptimal. New prokinetics and other motility-modifying agents may prove useful, but adequate clinical trials will be required to establish a role for them. However, diabetic gastropathy seems to represent a heterogenous syndrome in terms of pathophysiology, which potentially complicates the design of new randomized, controlled...
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