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GI & Endoscopy

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Though colonoscopy is often performed with anesthesia, a recent study published in the journal Gastroenterology has found sedation increases risk of complications. 

Emeran Mayer, MD, is director of the University of California Los Angeles Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer Family Center for Neurobiology of Stress and co-director of CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center at UCLA. He is board-certified in gastroenterology and internal medicine.

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