background and objective: obesity in childhood increases the risk of fatty liver disease. with respect to the increased prevalence of obesity in iran and the world, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between fatty liver and obesity in 6 -18 year-old children. methods: in this case-control study, 25 overweight children and 24 obese children, who had inclusion criteria, were selecte...

Background: Steatosis occurs in more than 50% of patients with chronic hepatitis C and is associated with increased hepatic fibrosis. In many of these patients the pathogenesis of steatosis appears to be the same as for patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease—that is, related to visceral adiposity and obesity. Methods: The effect of a three month weight reduction programme on liver bioc...

BACKGROUND Steatosis occurs in more than 50% of patients with chronic hepatitis C and is associated with increased hepatic fibrosis. In many of these patients the pathogenesis of steatosis appears to be the same as for patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease-that is, related to visceral adiposity and obesity. METHODS The effect of a three month weight reduction programme on liver bioc...

PATRICIA A. BARFORD, JOHN A. BLAIR and FREDERICK J. STAFF Department of Chemistry, University of Aston in Birmingham, Gosta Greem, Birmingham B4 7ET, U.K. It has been frequently claimed that polyglutamate forms of folates are found in animals (Noronha & Silverman, 1962; Shin et al., 1972; Brown et al., 1974) on the basis of column chromatography of these folates and chromatography of 'authentic...

Kadhaka Kadhiradi Kasayam (KKK) was screened for hepatoprotective activity against carbon tetrachloride induced liver injury in albino rats at a dose of 0.5ml/kg body weight. The drug reduced weight alkaline phosphatase and GOT activity in liver, cholesterol and GPT activity in serum. There was no effect on protein and liver glycogen.

We tested the effect of fasting on development juvenile freshwater angelfish (Pterophyllum scalare). The juveniles were subjected to different periods (0, 3, 6, 9, 12, and 15 days fasting). Fish from all treatments fed for 30 after period. No difference (P > 0.05) was observed between final weight length. There a significant < in 12 liver intestine weight. These results may prove that for...

OBJECTIVE Weight loss reduces abdominal and intrahepatic fat, thereby improving metabolic and cardiovascular risk. Yet, many patients regain weight after successful diet-induced weight loss. Long-term changes in abdominal and liver fat, along with liver test results and insulin resistance, are not known. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We analyzed 50 overweight to obese subjects (46 ± 9 years of ...

Little is known about the effect of age on liver function. The only study to date is that of Rafsky and Newman (1943) who found increased retention of bromsulphalein in 16 of 39 normal subjects over the age of 70 years compared with a group of 11 subjects aged 60 to 70 years. Liver weight is known, however, to decrease with age. Boyd (1933) analysed 9,886 necropsies and found that the decrease,...