Low-Level Traffic Air Pollution Linked to Liver Damage and Fatty Liver Disease Jan. 31, 2025 — Low levels of traffic-related air pollution harms the liver and may raise the risk of metabolic ...

Why do some people who consume a few glasses of alcohol a day develop advanced liver disease while others who drink the same amount don't? The answer may lie in three common underlying medical ...

The research found that heavy drinkers with either diabetes, high blood pressure or a high waist circumference are as much as 2.4 times more likely to develop advanced liver disease. Why do some ...

Your liver is a football-sized organ that sits under your ribs. It filters and cleans your blood, stockpiles energy, helps you fight infections and diseases, and converts food from the small ...

56,75–78 Post-partum haemorrhage (compounded by thrombocytopenia, coagulopathy, and aberrant variceal anatomy) might require contractile agents, surgical ligation, hysterectomy, or transjugular ...

Chronic liver diseases, hepatitis, and alcohol use can cause cirrhosis. Without treatment, cirrhosis leads to liver failure. Metabolic Dysfunction–Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD ...

Elevated liver enzymes could be temporary or caused by something like medication use. They could also indicate that you have a condition of the liver such as liver disease or hepatitis. Why You Might ...

Osteoporosis is a common complication of many types of liver disease. Research into the pathogenesis of osteoporosis has revealed that the mechanisms of bone loss differ between different types of ...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are the two most common causes of chronic liver disease in North America. NAFLD represents a spectrum of liver lesions that ...

Alcohol is the top cause of liver disease, according to the National Institutes of Health. Dr. James Burton, a liver transplant expert in Colorado, said this is a new and alarming shift.

The lower incidence of ILD and arthritis among pSS patients with ITP indicated potential active roles of platelets in the pathogenesis of fibrosis or inflammatory arthritis, which may open the way for ...

It usually happens over a long period, often due to hepatitis, alcohol use disorder, or metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), formerly called non-alcoholic fatty liver ...