Rising incidence of non-viral hepatitis has become a "hidden killer" of national health

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 28 (Reporter Wen Jinghua) July 28 is World Hepatitis Day. Experts said that with the continuous improvement of national living standards, China's fatty hepatitis as the representative of the incidence of non-viral hepatitis significantly increased, but because of its disease is not obvious, patients often neglect prevention and treatment, unwittingly increased the risk of cirrhosis, liver cancer.
fatty hepatitis is the most common type of non-viral hepatitis, mainly due to fatty liver disease. The two most important and critical categories of fatty liver disease are alcoholic liver disease caused by excessive alcohol consumption and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease associated with obesity and metabolic syndrome.
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, liver disease expert Zhuang Hui said that the survey shows that in recent years, China's total beverage and alcohol production showed an overall upward trend, the prevalence of alcoholic liver disease increased significantly, obesity prevalence and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease also showed a parallel upward trend.
" global non-alcoholic fatty liver disease epidemic survey shows that China's non-alcoholic fatty liver disease prevalence rate in urban areas is 21.83 percent, rural areas are 20.43 percent. According to this calculation, china's non-alcoholic fatty liver disease patients may be as high as 173 million-310 million, significantly exceeding the prevalence of viral hepatitis, need attention. Zhuang Hui said.
fan Jiangao, chief physician of digestive medicine at Xinhua Hospital, affiliated with Shanghai Jiaojiao University School of Medicine, pointed out that fatty liver disease has no clinical symptoms and is difficult to detect in the early stages, and about 25% of adults in China have fatty liver disease, of which 10%-20% may further develop fatty hepatitis. Between 15% and 25% of patients with fatty hepatitis develop cirrhosis and even liver cancer due to liver fibrosis.
" regular physical examination is conducive to the detection of early liver warning signs, timely prevention and treatment. To avoid fatty liver development into hepatitis, lifestyle changes are the best treatment. Fan Jiangao suggests that most patients with fatty liver disease associated with obesity and alcohol consumption can make a full recovery through reasonable diet, increased exercise, weight loss, and quitting alcohol. If it has developed to the hepatitis stage or at the same time the "three high" problem, then on this basis with the relevant drug treatment.