AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.

Antibiotics and Yogurt May Be Potential Treatments for Disorder.(fatty liver disorder)

Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week

| December 09, 2000 | COPYRIGHT 2009 NewsRX. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

2000 DEC 9 - (NewsRx.com) -- Hopkins scientists identified bacterial and intestinal links to fatty liver disorder.

If mouse studies hold true for humans, a daily cup of yogurt or dose of antibiotics may become the first effective treatments for a common and sometimes fatal obesity-related liver disorder, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, scientists reported.

Specifically, the scientists discovered what they believe is the first evidence that fatty liver disease (FLD) may be caused by an overactive inner "distillery" in the obese that produces excessive amounts of alcohol.

"Obesity-related FLD is already a serious public health problem in…

Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Pandemic Looms.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Family Practice News ZOLER, MITCHEL L. August 15, 2001 700+ words
...pandemic of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease may exist in...consistent with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), Dr...said Dr. Anna Mae Diehl, a professor of medicine...these disorders, Dr. Diehl said. Dr. Clark said...
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Pandemic.
Magazine article from: Internal Medicine News ZOLER, MITCHEL L. July 1, 2001 700+ words
...pandemic of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease may exist in the...consistent with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), Dr...diabetes, said Dr. Anna Mae Diehl, a professor of medicine...these disorders, said Dr. Diehl.
Nearly 25% Of Adults Affected In The U.S.(with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease)
Newspaper article from: Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week June 16, 2001 700+ words
...NewsRx Network) -- Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease affects nearly one in four...evidence suggests that nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) can progress to...Americans had twice the risk of whites. Diehl and colleagues reported their findings...
Icoria Adds Anna Mae Diehl, M.D., Leading Liver Disease Expert, to Its...
Press release article from: PR Newswire July 22, 2005 700+ words
...liver disease. Dr. Diehl joins a distinguished...Liebman, Ph.D. Dr. Diehl's research interests...treatment of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, frequently...trial for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, which is presently...joining Duke in 2004, Dr. Diehl was Director of the ...
Fatty liver disease on rise, can lead to cirrhosis, death.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Uhlenhuth, Karen June 16, 2003 700+ words
...high cholesterol _ add one more: fatty liver disease. The presence of too much fat...prevalent than we understood before." Fatty liver disease gained a name and definition...of Americans are afflicted with it. Fatty liver develops in an estimated 20 percent...
New fatty liver study findings recently were published by researchers at...
Newspaper article from: Gastroenterology Week June 1, 2009 700+ words
...and noninvasive testing on diagnosing fatty liver disease and with satisfied sensitivity...specificity. The sonographic diagnosis of fatty liver is usually made by radiologists who...to observe the macroscopic changes on fatty liver," investigators in Jinan, People...
Epidemiology of fatty liver in a hospital-based study in Taiwan.
Magazine article from: Southern Medical Journal Lai, Shih-Wei Tan, Chee-Keong Ng, Kim-Choy November 1, 2002 700+ words
...study was to assess the epidemiology of fatty liver in Taiwan. Methods. We retrospectively...was 49.2 years. The prevalence of fatty liver was 36.9% in all subjects, and prevalence...that the significant factors related to fatty liver were male sex, obesity, hyperglycemia...
Cellular stress causes fatty liver disease in mice.
Newspaper article from: Diabetes Week December 22, 2008 700+ words
...critical cellular housekeeping process and fatty liver disease, a condition that causes fat...for understanding and perhaps treating fatty liver disease, which is the most common form...in three American adults. Although fatty liver itself does not necessarily cause illness...
Fatty Liver Blocks Mastastasis.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: Cancer Weekly February 20, 2001 700+ words
...cancer lesions, new research has found. Fatty liver, or hepatic steatosis, a condition...Hepato-Gastroenterology, rats with fatty liver who were injected with rat colorectal...metastatic liver lesions than the non-fatty liver control rats. H. Karube and coworkers...
Fatty Liver Blocks Mastastasis.
Newspaper article from: Angiogenesis Weekly Nichols, Sonia February 23, 2001 700+ words
...cancer lesions, new research has found. Fatty liver, or hepatic steatosis, a condition...Hepato-Gastroenterology, rats with fatty liver who were injected with rat colorectal...metastatic liver lesions than the non-fatty liver control rats. H. Karube and coworkers...
For more facts and information, see all results

Source: HighBeam Research, Antibiotics and Yogurt May Be Potential Treatments for...

©2010 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. About us | FAQs | Contact us | Privacy policy | Terms and conditions
Other Gale sites: Encyclopedia.com | HighBeam Research | Acquire Content | Books & Authors | Goliath | MovieRetriever | Smart QandA

The AccessMyLibrary advertising network includes: womensforum.com GlamFamily