Posts Tagged ‘nafld’
Natural Sugar May Treat Fatty Liver Disease
Natural Sugar May Treat Fatty Liver Disease By Washington University in St. Louis | March 2, 2016 Trehalose is a natural sugar found in plants and insects and consists of two glucose molecules bound together. (pixabay CC0) Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition closely linked to obesity, affects roughly 25 percent of people in the…
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Emricasan Hoping to Be First Fatty Liver Drug Nicole Cutler Apr 15th, 2015 An experimental drug for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease has received high marks in a mid-stage trial. An estimated one quarter of American adults has non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a growing health problem that can be hazardous if not addressed. Currently, lifestyle…
Read MoreObesity-linked chronic liver illness skyrockets
Obesity-linked chronic liver illness skyrockets Follow @IndianaGazette Despite major gains in fighting hepatitis C and other chronic liver conditions, public health officials are now faced with a growing epidemic of liver disease that is tightly linked to the obesity crisis. In the past two decades, the prevalence of the disease, known as nonalcoholic fatty liver,…
Read MoreThreat Grows From Liver Illness Tied to Obesity
Threat Grows From Liver Illness Tied to Obesity By ANAHAD O’CONNOR June 13, 2014 10:07 pm Yubelkis Matias, 19, a student at Bronx Community College, lives with fatty liver disease. Nancy Borowick/The New York TimesYubelkis Matias, 19, a student at Bronx Community College, lives with fatty liver disease. Despite major gains in fighting…
Read MoreThreat Grows From Liver Illness Tied to Obesity
Threat Grows From Liver Illness Tied to Obesity World | Anahad O’connor, The New York Times | Updated: June 14, 2014 08:15 IST Threat Grows From Liver Illness Tied to Obesity Dr Joel Lavine, chief of pediatric gastroenterology at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital on May 22. Lavine studies fatty liver disease, a rapidly growing…
Read MoreFatty liver disease has gone from unknown to pandemic, but does it mean anything?
Fatty liver disease has gone from unknown to pandemic, but does it mean anything? By Druin Burch |Posted Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, at 12:51 PM ET Foie gras. Foie gras—essentially fatty liver—is delicious. Is it a disease? Diseases come and diseases go—which, when you think about it, they really shouldn’t. Outside of diseases that have…
Read MoreWhat is NASH?
Alternative names: Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis, NASH, Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease What is hepatitis? The word “hepatitis” comprises two elements: “-itis” at the end of the word indicates inflammation the first part comes from the organ called hepar, which means liver Hepatitis therefore means inflammation of the liver, like appendicitis means inflammation of the appendix and colitis…
Read MoreWhat is NASH and NAFL?
What is NASH and NAFL? Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver (NAFL)/ Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) What is fatty liver? In fatty liver, fat accumulates in the liver cells. Simple fatty liver usually does not damage the liver, but is a condition that can be identified by taking a sample of liver tissue (liver biopsy) and examining it under…
Read MoreDemystifying the liver and it's diseases
Demystifying the liver and it’s diseases At a glance: Functions of the liver include protein synthesis, detoxification, and metabolic processes. Liver problems are often discovered incidentally through routine laboratory testing or screening blood tests. Liver disease can have either an infectious or noninfectious etiology, such as hepatitis, nonalcoholic fatty liver disorders, and drug-induced injury. Patients…
Read MoreSpike Seen in Transplants for Fatty Liver Disease
Spike Seen in Transplants for Fatty Liver Disease By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: December 20, 2011 Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner The frequency of liver transplantation for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) increased six-fold over…
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