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Liver
health

Liver health has remained an unmet medical need on the global scale. People are not familiar with the liver. Despite the fact that it’s a vital organ, they may not know that liver health is critical. Chronic liver disease is increasing dramatically, but it can be reversible if diagnosed early and correctly monitored and treated.

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A poor diet and a sedentary lifestyle

NAFLD
25% of the worldwide population have Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease8. In patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, NAFLD reaches up to 73% of this population.9

NASH
1.5-6.45% of the worldwide population have Non-Alcoholic SteatoHepatitis.10

Hazardous alcohol consumption

Alcoholic liver disease is responsible for 3 million deaths every year.*11

Globally, over 50% of cirrhosis-related mortality is attributable to alcohol.

Viral infection

Hepatitis C Virus
More than 71 million people worldwide are infected and approximately 350,000 die each year.12

Hepatitis B Virus
In 2015, 257 million people were living with chronic hepatitis B infection and 887,000 died of HBV.13

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Basically, anything involving the liver. We use it with fatty liver (NAFLD), hepatitis B, hepatitis C, alcoholic liver disease, NASH, some of the auto-immune diseases, and for patients with hemochromatosis. FibroScan® is a simple, safe and cost-effective screening test for us.

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Stephen Esposito | MD, Hepatobiliary Associates of NY, United States