Different Pathophysiology of Gastritis between East and West? An Asian Perspective

Different Pathophysiology of Gastritis in East and West? A Western Perspective

Background: Gastritis results from multifactorial gastric mucosal injury. Helicobacter pylori (Hp) is the main cause, and associated diseases have typical underlying patterns of gastritis. Gastric ulcer and gastric cancer (GC) develop from chronic atrophic corpus gastritis (CAG) which therefore represents the most important pattern. GC incidences in East Asia are substantially higher than elsew...

Renaming dementia--an East Asian perspective.

East Asian Economic Growth—An Evolutionary Perspective

The High Performing Asian Economies have been the fastest growing economies anywhere, anytime. This phenomenal growth experience has stimulated extensive research on its determinants. What is less known however, is dynamics of the distribution of income. This paper considers a statistical model to describe convergence of cross-country incomes across the High Performing Asian Economies. The empi...

Atherosclerosis: An Integrative East-West Medicine Perspective

Recent understanding of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease has shifted the focus from lumen stenosis to vulnerable plaque, from lipid deposit to inflammatory reaction, and from vulnerable plaque to vulnerable patient. This has led to a new direction of treatment consisting of intervening the inflammatory reaction, stabilizing the vulnerable plaque, inhibiting thrombosis after plaque rup...

Incretin physiology and pathophysiology from an Asian perspective

Incretin hormones, such as glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide and glucagon-like peptide-1, are secreted on oral nutrient ingestion and regulate postprandial glucose homeostasis by conveying the signal of intestinal glucose flux. In East Asians, the secretion of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide and glucagon-like peptide-1 is not reduced in type 2 diabetes relative to normal...