Sentences with phrase «cirrhosis worldwide»
According to the World Health Organization, excessive alcohol drinking is the most common cause of cirrhosis worldwide.
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Around 400 million people worldwide are infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV); of those, one - third will go on to develop life - threatening complications, such as cirrhosis and liver cancer.
«Liver cancer is on the rise worldwide, and in human studies we've now seen that patients can progress from fatty liver disease to liver cancer without any middle steps such as cirrhosis,» says David Moore, a professor of molecular and cellular biology, who led the study with Associate Professor Loning Fu, both at Baylor.
Liver cirrhosis is the 12th leading cause of death worldwide and the number of people with chronic liver disease is increasing rapidly in Western countries.
«About 900,000 people die every year worldwide from cirrhosis,» Artandi said, «and liver cancer is the fifth - leading cause of cancer death in the United States.
Over 250 million people worldwide are chronically infected by HBV and almost a million of them die each year from complications (e.g. cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, HCC) of this infection.
The hepatitis B virus, which chronically infects more than 240 million people worldwide, causes cirrhosis and is the world's leading cause of liver cancer.
Cirrhosis is a late stage of scarring of the liver that claims the lives of over a million people worldwide every year.