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Obese drinkers more prone to liver aliments

If you are slightly on the heavier side, think twice before consuming alcohol. Twin studies on the effects of drinking have revealed that obesity and alcohol act together to elevate the risk of cirrhosis, a chronic disease of the liver, as well as other liver ailments.

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The British Medical Journal has reported that obese people who drink at least a glass of wine daily have almost double the risk of liver diseases than others.

Researchers from the University of Glasgow claim that alcohol consumption by obese people causes a double whammy effect, wherein two different causes of liver diseases together impact on a person's liver, and the impact of the attack is much higher than the sum of the causes.

Study conducted on a million women

Artificial livers coming soon

Washington, February 7: Treatment for liver damage may soon reach a new level with the development of a system made up of human liver cells, designed to mimic the function of the orga

Artificial livers coming soon

The decades-long quest for a suitable replacement of a dying liver recently saw a sudden boost as scientists began testing on the world’s first artificial liver.

The device, called Extracorporeal Liver Assist Device (ELAD), is a 4-inch plastic disk filled with "immortalized" lab-cultured human liver cells to perform the complicated functions of a the master organ.

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