Uniting the Global Gastroenterology Community to Meet the Challenge of Climate Change and Nonrecyclable Waste

Leddin D 1 , Omary MB 2 , Veitch A 3 , Metz G 4 , Amrani N 5 , Aabakken L 6 Show all authors , Ali RAR 7 , Alvares-da-Silva MR 8 , Armstrong D 9 , Boyacioglu S 10 , Chen Y 11 , Elwakil R 12 , Fock KM 13 , Hamid SS 14 , Makharia G 15 , Macrae F 16 , Malekzadeh R 17 , Mulder CJ 18 , Piscoya A 19 , Perman ML 20 , Sadeghi A 17 , Sáenz R 21 , Saurin JC 22 , Butt AS 14 , Wu K 23 , Lee YY 24

Affiliations 

  • 1 Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
  • 2 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
  • 3 Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals, Wolverhampton, UK
  • 4 Monash University and University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
  • 5 Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco
  • 6 Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
  • 7 National University of Malaysia, Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
  • 8 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
  • 9 McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
  • 10 Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey
  • 11 Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
  • 12 Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
  • 13 Duke-NUS Medical School and Changi General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
  • 14 Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
  • 15 All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi, India
  • 16 Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Vic., Australia
  • 17 Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  • 18 Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 19 Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima, Peru
  • 20 Fiji National University, Suva, Fiji
  • 21 Universidad del Desarrollo, Concepción, Chile
  • 22 Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France
  • 23 Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China
  • 24 Universiti Sains Malaysia, Gelugor, Penang, Malaysia
J Clin Gastroenterol, 2021 10 8;55(10):823-829.
PMID: 34617932 DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0000000000001619

Abstract

Climate change has been described as the greatest public health threat of the 21st century. It has significant implications for digestive health. A multinational team with representation from all continents, excluding Antarctica and covering 18 countries, has formulated a commentary which outlines both the implications for digestive health and ways in which this challenge can be faced.

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