Epatologia

Overweight and Liver Risks

From previous trials, we know that the presence of overweight can imply even severe risks for the liver, but the interaction between overweight and alcohol intake is not completely cleared up yet, so some answers to this situation are searched. In a retrospective trial performed in Scotland, 9600 males (averagely 47 years of age at the enrolment in the trial) have been examined and fol-lowed for about thirty years. After adjustments for multiple factors it was seen that deaths for liver causes are significantly associated with both an increase in alcohol intake and an increase in BMI.
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