The Risk of Liver Disease Stalking Young Men Who Are Overweight

Young men who are overweight not only at high risk have chronic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The latest study to call young men who are overweight also had a severe liver disease at high risk.

Studies conducted by Dr. Hannes Hagström and colleagues from the Center for Digestive Diseases, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, was done to 44,248 participants. Entire participants are men 18-20 years old when the study began in 1970 and aged about 60 years in 2009.

About 7 percent of the participants have excess body weight when the research began. Within 40 years, 393 participants were diagnosed with liver disease, including cirrhosis, liver function decrease or even death due to liver disorders.

At the time the study started, these young men already have liver disease risk because fat non-alcoholic beverages (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease) that eventually became increasingly severe as you get older, "said Dr. Hagström, quoted from Reuters.

As adults, the risk of heart disease increases due to the habit of drinking alcohol, smoking, drug use, lack of exercise and high blood pressure. Dr. Hagström notes the biggest risk there are men who consume more than 3.5 alcohols bottles per week.

"The ill effects of alcohol on the liver has been known since long. But our study found that on young men who are already overweight, bad effects will increase many times over, "he added again.

The Risk of Liver Disease Stalking Young Men Who Are Overweight