My liver be phat.
Posted on 05/02/2022 11:44:50 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
A research group shows that people with fatty liver disease are expected to live almost three years shorter than the general population.
People who have been diagnosed with so-called fatty liver, run an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease and loss in life expectancy, compared to the general population. These patients have approximately a 2.8 years shorter expected survival, based on collected data from a large number of Swedish patients. However, the risk of death after a heart attack or stroke is still comparable to people without fatty liver.
The results of the study are important because they can be used to facilitate the communication between health care workers and patients with fatty liver.
"It will be easier to communicate around the expected survival of the patient and around the importance of the best possible treatment, which hopefully also can improve the patient's prognosis. In addition, the results indicate that you won't need to examine the liver to see if patients with heart attack or stroke are affected by fatty liver," says postdoc Ying Shang at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, the study's first author.
In this nationwide population-based cohort, a collection of extensive data links between national registries where made. Investigating a very large group of patients with fatty liver (> 10,000), the researchers were able to identify all patients with fatty liver in Sweden and compare these with the general population.
"In my research group, there are several ongoing projects, where we investigate better ways to identify which patients with fatty liver are at highest risk for developing serious complications such as cardiovascular disease, death, cirrhosis and cancer," says Hannes Hagström at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge, one of the study's authors.
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I will put the study in the next post.
Can I get the extra 2.8 years in my 20s instead of my 80s?
One should be able to get rid of a fatty liver with diet, getting somewhere below 15% body fat, otherwise.
My liver be phat.
How much of the supplement and for how long was the treatment?
I wash my liver every night with alcohol...............
They were on it five months before being retested.
The link I provided gives more detail, but it was 300 mg, twice a day.
The VA tells me weight loss and carb reduction are the only approved concepts for both Non Alcohol Fatty Liver Disease, and its progression to Non Alcohol Steatoheptitis.
Heads up people. Things have changed.
As of today, most cirrhosis cases are not from hepatitis virus or from alcohol. It’s from high fat diets, even if overall weight has not sharply increased. You can form cirrhosis with zero alcohol and zero Hep A, B, C virus. NAFLD is going to soon be the primary reason behind liver transplants.
Now, most have not just eaten high fat diets, they have also gained weight. Weight loss of 10% of body weight is the only study out there showing reduction of liver fat totals.
There is an intermediate stage between fatty liver and cirrhosis. That is NASH. This will start to form fibrosis structures the liver is not repairing. It has not yet reached cirrhosis stage but it is headed there. Weight loss and diet restriction of sugar and saturated fat is the only treatment with proper studies behind it for this, and those studies suggest about all that can be reasonably done is stop progression to cirrhosis.
Meaning reversal of fat is very possible, but it takes years to reverse the fibrosis.
There are many drugs in development because fat in liver has become an epidemic. 30-40% of the population has it, and they are not all obese. To date, none have passed their clinical trials. One promising type was rejected by FDA at Phase III.
A drug will eventually get developed and it will actually stop/reverse cirrhosis, but not yet.
In other news, psychologists have determined that completely eliminating bacon and pastrami from one’s diet can lead to long stretches of depression and despair.
I bequeath my Foi Grais to humanity....
I have it. I have the genetic propensity for it as per 23andme.
If you want to check for it growthfactor15 test may be an indication.
Thanks!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2937104/
Sadly, a close friend of mine died several years ago of severe NAFLD. Although relatively mild cases are common, NAFLD is a spectrum disorder with severe cases all too common.
Read that study some months ago. I have fatty liver so decent to try the Pantethine. 600 mg per day now for 3 months. Had blood work done back in October of last year. Cholesterol was 205. Blood work again this March. Cholesterol was 174. Ratio of good to bad cholesterol was 2.7 /1. Anything under 5 to 1 is acceptable. 3.5 to 1 is optimal. No other changes in lifestyle. My observation is that the Pantethine works.
I recommend heavy alcohol consumption, so you can go right past fatty liver disease, and relax with cirrhosis..
Any adverse interactions with other meds…side effects?
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