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High carb and fat food key cause of fatty liver disease in India: Experts
Updated On: 09 June, 2023 11:29 AM IST | New Delhi | IANS
The condition is even more severe among individuals who are obese or diabetic. In addition, people suffering from high cholesterol and hypertension also show increasing cases of fatty liver
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to tackle this epidemic in India, stringent testing in high-risk groups is mandatory to identify this silent killer at an early stage. Photo Courtesy: iStock
While alcohol is known to damage the liver, less activity coupled with a high intake of carb and fat food is silently driving an epidemic of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in India, said experts here on the occasion of International NASH Day on Thursday.
Fatty liver disease of two types: If there is fat, but no damage to the liver, the disease is called nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). If you have fat in your liver plus signs of inflammation and liver cell damage, then it is called nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).
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