BACKGROUND During lactation, the consumption of ethanol is discussed controversially. After women drink alcoholic beverages, ethanol can be found in breastmilk with a time lag. To abstain from ethanol, but not from the taste of alcoholic beverages, in particular, non-alcoholic beer has become popular in recent years. According to regulations in the United States and most European countries, the...

BACKGROUND The link between the subcategories of liver cirrhosis and type 2 diabetes is not well known. We investigated the association of type 2 diabetes mellitus with alcoholic cirrhosis and cirrhosis without alcohol. METHODS This nationwide cohort study used the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database. Cirrhotic individuals and their matched controls were identified from 2001-20...

UNLABELLED Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease has an increasing prevalence in Western countries, affecting up to 20% of the population. OBJECTIVE The aim of this project was to systematically review and summarise the genetic association studies that investigate possible genetic influences that confer susceptibility to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. DESIG...

It has been shown that a specific liver lesion--that is, pericentral sclerosis associated with pericellular fibrosis--is the precursor of alcoholic liver sclerosis. It is, however, difficult to diagnose this hepatic lesion in chronic alcoholics, using only clinical data without liver biopsy. To investigate the possibility of a clinical test reflecting the presence of this hepatic lesion, ethano...

Effect of alcoholic and aqueous extracts of the fruits of F. racemosa Linn., on the spontaneous movements of both the whole worm and nerve muscle preparation of Setaria cervi and on the survival of microfilariae in vitro was studied. Alcoholic as well as aqueous extracts caused inhibition of spontaneous motility of whole worm and nerve muscle preparation of Setaria cervi characterized by increa...