Health priority

Fatty Liver Disease and Liver Health

Fatty liver disease is a disease of the liver, during which the organ of the digestive system becomes “fatty”.

© Unsplash - Julien Tromeur

By: Igor Strauss

1 min

Fatty liver disease is a disease of the liver, during which the organ of the digestive system becomes “fatty”.

It is frequently associated with obesity, diabetes, hypertension, excessive alcohol consumption or high cholesterol.

Often, this disease can be prevented or even eliminated by making a few simple changes to the lifestyle of those affected.

Advertising

What are the signs ?

Which diets to adopt?

What are the treatments ?

How to better understand soda sickness?

  • Pr Tarik Asselah

    , Professor of Medicine and Hepatology at the

    Beaujon Hospital, in Clichy

    , in the Hauts-de-Seine.

    Director of Research at

    INSERM

    .

    responsible for viral hepatitis 

  • Pr Roger Sombié

    , gastroenterologist and hepatologist at

    Yalgado Ouédraogo Hospital, Ouagadougou

    , Burkina Faso 

At the end of the program, we take stock of the "therapeutic and respite" stays for sick children, which the

association L'ENVOL

has been organizing in France for 25 years.

We talk about it with

Joanna Jammes

, general manager of

L'ENVOL.

Newsletter

Receive all the international news directly in your mailbox

I subscribe

Follow all the international news by downloading the RFI application

google-play-badge_EN

  • Health and medicine

On the same subject

The Health Council

What is NASH hepatitis?

The Health Council

Hepatitis C: how to explain the lack of access to treatment?

The Health Council

Hepatitis B: can it be cured?

What can be the complications?