April 13, 2018.
On the occasion of the European Congress of Hepatology which is being held until Sunday, April 15, doctors sounded the alarm to warn against soda disease, or non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).
A disease that attacks the liver
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis is still too little known to the general public. However, it affects more and more people. 1 to 2 million people are indeed affected by this disease in France. If left untreated, it can lead to inflammation and an increase in the size of the liver. Eventually, it can even progress to cirrhosis or cancer.
” We see it in younger and younger people, who have never had a drop of alcohol », Lamented Dominique Lannes, hepato-gastroenterologist, in the columns of the Parisian. It is also called non-alcoholic steatohepatitis because it manifests itself in the same way as cirrhosis, but it is not associated with alcohol abuse. It is the accumulation of fat in the liver that causes degeneration of liver cells.
How to avoid it?
This disease develops in patients who have poor food hygiene and do not engage in regular physical activity. Dominique Lannes has just published Nash, the junk food disease (Flammarion). According to him, the number of patients affected by this disease is likely to explode in the coming years. And research must advance because there is to date no treatment against this disease of the century.
Jean-François Mouney, CEO of biotech Genfit, for his part spoke in favor of the launch of an international Nash day on June 12. ” It is an unrecognized disease, it is a confused disease, because it can be confused with what leads to cirrhosis of the liver for reasons of alcoholism “, He explained on BFM Business. “ It is a disease which eventually becomes very important and which is completely linked to obesity.. “
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