Sentences with phrase «cause nonalcoholic»

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BPA and another endocrine disruptor, tributyltin — an additive in paint and textiles — caused liver damage consistent with human nonalcoholic hepatic steatosis, or fatty liver, the investigators reported.

A new study from the University of Illinois reports that including broccoli in the diet may also protect against liver cancer, as well as aid in countering the development of fatty liver or nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) which can cause malfunction of the liver and lead to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a liver cancer with a high mortality rate.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is primarily the cause of death of patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

In industrialized countries, the main causes of liver injury leading to fibrosis include chronic hepatitis virus infection, excess alcohol consumption and, increasingly, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease - related cirrhosis and liver failure have become leading causes of liver transplant, and the numbers are only predicted to increase.

Fatty liver and type 2 diabetes Peter Crawford, M.D., Ph.D., director of SBP's Cardiovascular Metabolism Program, is studying the root causes of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a condition that affects nearly 80 percent of people with type 2 diabetes.

This can cause the low - grade damage known as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (steato meaning fat and hepatitis meaning liver inflammation).

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, meaning a fatty liver caused by excess food rather than excess drink, is now the most common cause of liver disease in the United States, found during autopsy in up to 90 % of obese individuals, and can lead in rare cases to cirrhosis of the liver, cancer of the liver, and death.