If you are told cirrhosis, you necessarily think alcohol. Now, this liver disease can be associated with consuming too much sugar and fat.
“NASH”: a disease without first revealing symptoms
Non-alcoholic cirrhosis, called “NASH” (non-alcoholic steato hepatitis) in English, begins to settle in France, where one in three people is overweight, with a BMI over 25. In the United States and America central, it is rife much more extensively. Doctors are worried because the disease starts insidiously, without showing any symptoms.
Since June 25 and until this evening, a Franco-American conference brings together 250 liver specialists at the Institut Pasteur. Doctors are brainstorming solutions to prevent this insidious disease. The solution to avoid it? Anticipate and adopt a Healthy eating to start.
Before them, at the beginning of June, American researchers had already discovered that people who drink too many sugary drinks per day have a greater degree of risk of “NASH” than those who consume water instead. y
“NASH”: 50% of the population reached by 2030
The number of cases of non-alcoholic cirrhosis would have doubled between 1988 and 2013 and researchers estimate that 50% of the population could suffer from the disease by 2030. And according to the doctors meeting in Paris, it has no specific treatment for the moment.
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