Pegylated Interferon Therapy of Chronic Hepatitis D: In Need of Revision Liver biopsy plays a central role in treatment algorithms in patients with hepatitis B and remains the gold standard for evaluating hepatic pathology. The pathology of hepatitis B is diverse and reflects the natural history of...
carbohydrate diet on liversteatosisin NAFLD patients [63]. From this point of view, NAFLD animal models based oncholine deficiency(and potentially also folate deficiency [64]) seem to be attractive physiological models for hepatic methyl donor deficiency that are clinically relevant to the human ...
The authors would like to thank the deanship of scientific research at King Khalid University for the continued support for this research and would like to thank their technical team for their significant help to this study. Funding This study is funded by the deanship of scientific research at...
For instance, elevation of homocysteine due to an insult in homocysteine metabolism is observed in patients with hepatic steatosis, cirrhosis, and chronic alcohol consumption.15, 16 On the other hand, homocysteine has been shown to enhance hepatic lipid metabolism via the transcription factor, sterol...
Most guidelines and consensus recommend weight loss through lifestyle intervention as the first-line treatment for patients with NAFLD who are overweight and obese [5,6,7,8,9]. However, the ideal diet and physical activity (PA) regimen remains uncertain because previous studies have varied in th...
For patients with swelling, adequate amounts of proteins should be provided to replace the urine protein loss and prevent malnutrition.An adequate amount of calories and vitamins should also be provided to these patients. In symptom- free patients:The dietary advice during the symptom- free period...
Some of your friends are taking diet pills. These pills are likely to be ___ a. amphetamines. b. methylphenidate. c. opiates. d. barbiturates. Psychoactive: Psychoactive is a collection of chemical substances that can influence our...
HBV-positive newbornsPeripheral Blood Mononuclear cellsregulatory T cellsT-cell functionT-cell receptorHepatitis B Virus (HBV) infection in infancy or early childhood leads to high rate of persistent infection (25-90%). The immunological basis of high rate of viral persistence in vertically acquired...
Serologic tests for CD, including endomysial antibody (EMA) and tissue transglutaminase (TTG), are generally negative, but a positive serology may be present in 19–30% of patients despite being on a strict GFD,23,24 hence a positive serology does not exclude the diagnosis of RCD. Therefore...
patients who Four cycles of a Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) provide a range of changes overlapping with but also distinct from those achieved by 4 months of continuous Mediterranean diet (MD) in overweight and obese individuals at risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). After the 3-month follow-...