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PostScripts

• Letter: Authors’ reply (8 August, 2019)

  Kathryn Oakland, Jonathan Hoare
• Letter: Intestinal resection rates in Crohn’s disease decline across two different epidemiological areas: a consistent observation not merely due to introduction of anti-TNFα (14 August, 2019)

  Evelien M J Beelen, C Janneke van der Woude, Annemarie C de Vries
• Letter: There is much more to rely on histology than the sole endoscopy tells us (31 August, 2019)

  Matteo Ghisa, Massimo Rugge, Matteo Fassan, Fabio Farinati, Edoardo Savarino
• Letter: Early detection and risk stratification of gastric cancer are likely to be refined with biopsies targeted through high-resolution-enhanced imaging (14 October, 2019)

  Marnix Jansen, Matthew Banks
• Letter: ESD, not EMR, should be the first-line therapy for early gastric neoplasia (3 September, 2019)

  Neal Shahidi, Michael J Bourke
• Letter: EMR achieves similar oncological outcomes as ESD for gastric neoplasia of <1cm, requiring less expertise, training and time (5 October, 2019)

  Matthew Banks, Noriya Uedo, Pradeep Bhandari, Takuji Gotoda
• Letter:

  Alcohol-dependent effect of PRSS1-PRSS2 haplotype in chronic pancreatitis

  (10 September, 2019)

  Eszter Hegyi, Anna Zsófia Tóth, Áron Vincze, Andrea Szentesi, Péter Hegyi, Miklós Sahin-Tóth
• Letter: The prescreening tool for gastric cancer in China (3 September, 2019)

  Kecheng Liu, Mengbin Qin, Jiean Huang
• Letter: Mortality rate after pneumatic dilatation for achalasia (5 August, 2019)

  Froukje B van Hoeij, Albert J Bredenoord
• Letter: Mortality rate after pneumatic dilatation for achalasia: authors’ reply (18 September, 2019)

  Philip R Harvey, Prashant Patel, Nigel J Trudgill
• Letter: High-fat, low-carbohydrate diet was associated with unfavourable impact on colonic luminal microenvironment (27 September, 2019)

  Yi Wan, Duo Li
• Letter: Dietary fat and the faecal microbiome: where collinearity may lead to incorrect attribution of effects to fat (6 September, 2019)

  Zaid S Ardalan, Miles P Sparrow, Jane G Muir, Peter R Gibson
• Letter: British Society of Gastroenterology position statement on patient experience of GI endoscopy (10 September, 2019)

  Colin J Rees, Tim M Trebble, Christian Von Wagner, Zoe Clapham, Paul Hewitson, Hugh Barr, Simon Everett, Helen Griffiths, Manu Nayar, Kofi Oppong, Stuart Riley, John Stebbing, Siwan Thomas-Gibson, Roisin Bevan
• Letter: Zonulin in serum as a biomarker fails to identify the IBS, functional dyspepsia and non-coeliac wheat sensitivity (28 September, 2019)

  Nicholas J Talley, Gerald J Holtmann, Michael Jones, Natasha A Koloski, Marjorie M Walker, Grace Burns, Michael D E Potter, Ayesha Shah, Simon Keely