The Health of Nation report, based on the health screenings of 2.5 million individuals at Apollo Hospitals in the Country, has indicated that NAFLD has emerged as an important health issue linked to obesity, diabetes, and hypertension
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 […]
