The educational objectives of the teaching of Gastrointestinal Pathologies are the knowledge of epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, symptoms, and the complications of the main diseases of the digestive system. Furthermore, the relationships between gastroenterological pathologies and nutrition will be discussed.
After successful completion of this course, students will be able to identify mechanisms underlying genesis and progression of cancers and how they can be targeted by nutrition; recognize nutritional requirements of oncological patients and provide them with nutritional advice.
- Nutrition and cancer
- Obesity, diabetes and cancer
- Protein-calorie malnutrition in cancer: causes, consequences and management;
- nutritional management of the patient with cancer;
- prevention and nutritional management of oesophageal and stomach pathologies (including gastroesophageal reflux disease, gastritis);
- nutritional management of the patient with inflammatory bowel diseases (ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease), diverticular diseases, irritable bowel syndrome;
- prevention and nutritional management of chronic liver diseases;
- obesity and nutritional management of the patient undergoing bariatric surgery.
1. Manuale di Gastroenterologia, UNIGASTRO, Editrice Gastroenterologica Italiana, edizione 2020-2023
2. Harrison - Manuale di Medicina - Edizione 19^ - 2017 - Casa Editrice Ambrosiana CEA