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Drip coffee helps to improve liver function in patients with hepatitis C.

Published: 2024-11-17 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2024/11/17, Hepatitis C can lead to chronic inflammation and fibrosis of the liver, and some patients can develop into liver cirrhosis or even hepatocellular carcinoma, which does great harm to the health and life of the patients. According to a statement issued by Osaka City University in Japan on the 12th, its research team found that if patients with hepatitis C drink more than one cup of dripping coffee a day, it will help improve liver function. Dripping coffee refers to the use

Hepatitis C can lead to chronic inflammation and fibrosis of the liver, and some patients can develop into liver cirrhosis or even hepatocellular carcinoma, which does great harm to the health and life of the patients.

Japan's Osaka City University said in a statement on the 12th that its research team found that if patients with hepatitis C drink more than one cup of dripping coffee a day

It helps to improve liver function. Dripping coffee refers to coffee made by washing coffee powder in the filter with boiling water.

A research team led by Yachi Sasaki, an associate professor at the university, studied 376 patients with hepatitis C in their twenties and eighties who were treated at Osaka City University Hospital.

The changes of alanine aminotransferase (ALT), which will rise after hepatocyte destruction, were compared with the frequency of coffee drinking.

The results showed that among patients with hepatitis C whose alt value was at the normal level (0.45 IU/L) at the beginning of the survey, if they drank more than one cup of dripping coffee a day, they did not drink at all.

Compared with patients who drank, a higher proportion of patients maintained alt values after 1 year (89% vs.76%). In addition, start investigating patients with high alt values, if every day

After drinking more than one cup of dripping coffee, there were more patients whose alt decreased more than 20IU/L after 1 year (37% vs.22%). And drink dripping coffee.

The greater the quantity, the more obvious the effect.

However, people who drank canned coffee, instant coffee and decaffeinated coffee showed little effect, although the exact reason was not clear.

The team pointed out that the survey showed that dripping coffee could help reduce liver cirrhosis in patients with hepatitis C, thereby preventing liver cancer. At present, for patients with hepatitis C,

Interferon treatment should be taken to eliminate hepatitis C virus, but due to side effects and other problems, some patients can not receive interferon treatment, for these patients, drink coffee

For a living habit is worth encouraging.

Yachi Sasaki pointed out: "Hepatitis can develop into cirrhosis after 10 to 20 years, and it is hoped that further long-term investigation will be carried out in the future." A paper on this achievement

It has been published in the 11th issue of PLoS Comprehensive Volume, an American online science magazine.

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