Review

Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology & Hepatology (2008) 5, 162-171
doi:10.1038/ncpgasthep1054  
Received 6 July 2007 | Accepted 10 December 2007 | Published online: 12 February 2008

Therapy Insight: gastrointestinal complications of diabetes—pathophysiology and management

Joseph H Sellin and Eugene B Chang*

Correspondence *Department of Medicine, MC6084, University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

Email
 echang@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu

Patients with diabetes often have gastrointestinal symptoms, but the extent and severity of this problem and the specificity of the symptoms experienced are not nearly as well defined as generally assumed. The authors of this Review examine the frequency and type of gastrointestinal symptoms experienced by patients with diabetes, review the underlying pathophysiology of these gastrointestinal complications and consider the therapeutic options available.

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