Vitamin D Therapy Could Be A Powerful Weapon In The Fight Against Liver Fibrosis
Liver fibrosis results from an excessive accumulation of tough, fibrous scar tissue and occurs in most types of chronic liver diseases. In industrialized countries, the main causes of liver injury leading to fibrosis include chronic hepatitis virus infection, excess alcohol consumption and, increasingly, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)…
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Vitamin D Therapy Could Be A Powerful Weapon In The Fight Against Liver Fibrosis
April 29, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: chronic-liver, excess-alcohol, excessive-accumulation, fibrosis-include, fibrosis-results, fibrous-scar, liver-injury, most-types, nash, oncalldiets, the-main, virus-infection