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Prevalence of advanced polyps similar at ages 45-49, 50-54 years SAN ANTONIO — The increased prevalence of advanced adenoma and clinically significant serrated polyps was similar among age groups on both sides of age 50 years, suggesting that screening at 45 years optimizes colorectal cancer prevention, according to study results presented at the American College of Gastroenterology Annual Meeting. Lynn F. Butterly, MD, of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, said that while the incidence of CRC among patients older than 50 years has decreased significantly, it has increased by more than 50% among patients younger than 50 years. SEE ALSO IBS: Transitioning from a Syndrome to a Disease [...]

Aspirin doubles risk for upper GI bleeding events in older adults Andrew T. Chan Aspirin almost doubles the risk for serious upper gastrointestinal bleeding in older people and can further increase with age, smoking, chronic kidney disease and NSAIDs, according to data from Digestive Disease Week. “This study confirms that among older adults, low dose aspirin is associated with an increased risk of gastrointestinal bleeding with the risk highest among those who smoke and have high blood pressure or kidney disease,” Andrew T. Chan, MD, chief, clinical and translational epidemiology unit director of cancer epidemiology at Massachusetts General Cancer Center, told Healio Gastroenterology. SEE ALSO Grilling, [...]