Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a frequent complication in patients with chronic liver disease. HE is a complication of cirrhosis that is associated with psychomotor slowing and an increased risk of accidents at home, at work, or while driving a car.…
Before the advent of antiretroviral drugs, the prognosis for patients with AIDS was extremely poor. However, new antiretroviral treatments have revolutionised care for patients with HIV/AIDS, making lifelong viral suppression possible and improving life expectancy to near normal in patients…
Liver cancer is a leading cause of cancer death, with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) accounting for 85–90% of all primary liver cancers. In a recent issue of Journal of Hepatology, Dr Baumeister et al. showed that higher total physical activity was…
Study finds fatty liver disease is less likely to occur in mothers who breastfeed for more than six months. Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Kaiser Permanente have discovered that mothers who breastfed a child or children…
While the prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) continues to rise, with both conditions increasingly recognised in primary care and specialist practice, quantifying future disease burden has always been challenging. This is largely due to…