Liver Disease Essay

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Topic: What are treatment options for different liver disease?
Introduction
Liver is the most important vascular organ of the body and second largest part of the body after skin. Liver performs various functions of the body such as detoxification, manufacturing of blood cells, bile, hormones, albumin, repair damage cell, combating infection and storage of iron, vitamins and fats. Therefore liver should be free from any injuries and fats because excessive consumption of alcohol, obesity and diabetes are the main causes of different liver diseases. According to recent a report from the Department of Health (2014) in UK that one-in-three children and two-in-three adults are obese and have more potential for liver disease. According to a new statistical report about 6 million of Australians are affected from liver disease (McCaughan 2013). However, different type of approaches should be adopted in order to eradicate different types of liver diseases. A new hormone known as Adiponectin release from adipose tissue but clinical studies on human are not yet performed (Alisi & Nobili 2012). Combination therapy of different drugs also has significant effect on the liver but further research may be required. The main focus of the researchers deals with the efficacy and efficiency of drugs, how they should be improved in order to prevent different liver diseases.
Insulin resistance is the main cause of non-alcoholic liver disease. According to Alisi & Nobili (2012) metformin is mostly use in order to lower down glucose production and increase the glucose uptakes but it also increase ALT level. This is supported by Nadeau et al that metformin significantly helping to overcome liver injuries but the recent clinical trials show some side effect...

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In conclusion, liver is vascular organ of body and perform different function. Liver should be free from fats and injuries, different types of drugs are used in liver disease and still some research are going on different drugs and hormones but these researches were performed on limited number of patients because of different side effects and increased mortality rate. More researches and clinical guidelines should be performed on combination therapy of different drugs such as pentoxifylline, vitamin E, steroids and Ursodeoxycholic acid and this will help that how and in which way these drugs should be used in combination in order to prevent liver diseases. The government should provide funds for such types of research work in order to encourage them to eradicate different types of liver diseases.
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