background: gastrointestinal and liver diseases (gilds) are major causes of death and disability in middle east and north africa (mena). however, they have different patterns in countries with various geographical, cultural, and socio-economic status. we aimed to compare the burden of gilds in iran with its neighboring countries using the results of the global burden of disease (gbd) study in 2...

the liver is involved in the synthesis and metabolism of many kinds of hormones, various abnormalities hormone levels are found in advanced liver disease. for example the liver is, extremely sensitive to changes in insulin or glucagon levels. the liver is the primary organ of iron storage is frequently involved, diabetes is common in patients with iron overload and may be seen in cirrhosis. chr...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: there have been few studies to examine the effect of magnesium (mg) supplementation on liver enzymes. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of mg supplementation and weight loss on liver enzymes, lipid profile, and fasting blood sugar in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld). materials and methods: this study ...

background nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) is one of the most common reasons of enzyme increase in liver. in about 10 percent of patients with nafld, the disease progresses toward non alcoholic steatohepatitis (nash) and about one third of them may progress toward cirrhosis, liver dysfunction, and even hepatocellular carcinoma. objectives according to high prevalence of nafld and the f...

conclusions our results showed for the first time that lyplal1 gene is not associated with a risk of nafld development in the chinese han population. the variant carriers of overall subjects significantly increased weight, bmi and ldl. patients and methods lyplal1 rs12137855 gene was genotyped in 184 patients with nafld and 114 healthy controls using sequencing and polymerase chain reaction ana...

background: transient elastography (te) is a new modality for the diagnosis of liver fibrosis caused by various etiologies. this study was conducted to determine the accuracy of te in detecting the different stages of liver fibrosis in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) patients. methods: medline/pubmed, embase, ovid, cochrane library, american college of physicians (acp) journal club, g...

â  ba ckground the only curative therapy for end-stage liver disease is transplantation but due to a shortage of available donor livers the waiting list mortality is high. this study aimed to evaluate the outcome and characteristics of patients on the waiting list for liver transplantation in shiraz, southern iran during the period from april 2004 to march 2007. methods medical records of all c...