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Study conducted by University of Hyderabad (UoH) scientists and researcher scholars, in collaboration with a senior hepatologist of the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology (AIG) Hospital reveals sedentary lifestyle involving long hours sitting at desk fuelling the risk of several non-communicable diseases

According to the researchers, this suggests that family members could benefit from lifestyle advice that is presently exclusively offered to patients

The phenomenon is not restricted to adults and affects nearly 35 per cent of the children as well, says the AIIMS study

Hyderabad: Sedentary lifestyle, poor dietary habits resulting in obesity, uncontrolled diabetes and hypertension are leading to significant increase in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) among people in urban and rural areas, a door-to-door survey taken-up by doctors from Hyderabad-based Asian Institute of Gastroenterology (AIG), said. More than 25 per cent of people in urban areas […]

Washington [US]: A new study has identified two genes, previously reported to be involved in cancer, as regulators of the metabolic state of the liver. The research has been published in the ‘Nature Communications Journal’. The epidemic of obesity worldwide has increased the risk of accumulating fat in the liver, a preamble to liver inflammation […]