Children fat, disease Lever Caution!
Overweight or obesity is a health problem that is popular in developed countries. Even obesity problem now is not the only strikes adults, but also children and teenagers aged dozen years.
The thrill, a number of case reports and the latest research indicates the problems of obesity in children more and more evident, especially in developed countries. And report the results of Associated Press interview Monday (8 / 9) indicates, for example, children with obesity tend to be vulnerable to organ damage in the liver (Lever) due to the piles of fat in the body.
As a result of the damage, in some transplantation of Lever need to connect life. And surprisingly, many of them likely have to undergo liver transplant organs at the age of 30 to 40s. This phenomenon, experts said, demanding children to the doctor more cautious excess of obesity.
Research notes, Heart illness cases of the disease that can cause cirrhosis, failed Lever or liver cancer, start now found on many children in developed countries like the U.S., Europe, and Australia and even in some developing countries.
American Liver Foundation and other research data recorded about 2 to 5 percent of children in the United States above the age of 5 years in almost all experienced obesity. They contagious disease condition called non-obesity Lever alcoholic (nonalcoholic fatty lives disease / NAFLD).
"It is a condition that often causes disease Lever," he said. Ronald Sokol, director of public policy and the American Liver Foundation, liver disease expert from Children’s Hospital and the University of Denver, Colorado.
Experts estimate about 10 percent of children and 50 percent of obesity Children to develop NAFLD. However, only a few of them are detected through a simple blood test in the laboratory, because only with a biopsy action to ensure that doctors can diagnose this disease.
Damaging Lever
When the fat starts to accumulate in the body, lives can have inflammation and injury along with the time. This can cause cirrhosis, or a serious condition in the past few years, most caused by hepatitis or customs drink too much alcohol. Lever failure or liver cancer can also appear afterwards, but if cirrhosis has not occurred, the disease NAFLD can be solved through a decrease in body weight.
NAFLD is a condition that is found in many obesity children with distended bellies, along with warning symptoms such as diabetes, cholesterol or heart disease. However, NAFLD can also appear in some children with normal body weight.
Genetic factors, dietary habits and sports also provide an important role for the existence of this condition. NAFLD recorded prevalence is higher among boys rather than girls. Hispanic folk also recorded the highest prevalence, and relatively rare among the Afro-American.
Experts assess obesity is a very serious problem that must be addressed urgently. Heart disease with obesity is increasingly found in adults, they estimated the problems of obesity will be the main cause of graft lives in the future in 2020.
"There are patients who at the age of 30 or early 40s need transplantation Lever NAFLD due to a contagious disease since childhood," says Dr. Derdoy Jose, head of transplantation lives Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center in St. Louis Lever predict the phenomena of disease due to obesity.
He had to handle their own transplantation Lever obesities a child aged 15 years that have been the origin of Texas sentenced to cirrhosis. Derdoy also handles many other children who have the same problem.
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