Case Study 3 A 71-year-old woman presented with watery diarrhea, nighttime fecal incontinence, and abdominal pain, along with a weight loss of 27 kg over a period of 5 years. [ptcommunity.com]

But high blood pressure left unchecked greatly increases a person’s risk for heart disease and stroke, the first and third leading causes of death in the United States, respectively. [drugwatch.com]

Additional causes in the tropics are infections of the intestine with Giardia intestinalis, Stongyloides stercoralis or Capillaria philippinensis. Early symptoms or sprue may errorneously be attributed to amoebiasis. [histopathology-india.net]