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Article: Push diet, exercise; Consider glitazones for NASH: patients who achieved greater than 9% weight loss had improvements in NASH activity scores.(Gastroenterology)(nonalcoholic steatohepatitis)
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- Internal Medicine News
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- April 15, 2007
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MIAMI BEACH -- All patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, as well as those at risk for developing the condition, should be counseled about the importance of diet and exercise, while more aggressive therapy should be considered in those who fail to achieve 10% weight loss with diet and exercise alone, Dr. Stephen A. Harrison said at a meeting on hepatobiliary disease sponsored by the University of Miami.
Studies suggest that people who are overweight or obese have a substantially higher risk of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). For example, about 3% of the general population has NASH, compared with 20%-40% of those with body mass index greater than 35 ...