Drip coffee helps to improve liver function in patients with hepatitis C.
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 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, investigated 376 patients with hepatitis C in their 20s and 80s who were treated at Osaka City University Hospital, and compared the changes in alanine aminotransferase (ALT), which rises after liver cell damage, with the frequency of coffee drinking.
It was found that patients with hepatitis C whose alt value was normal at the beginning of the survey (.45 IU/L) had a higher percentage of people who drank more than one cup of dripping coffee a day than those who did not drink it at all (89% vs.76%). In addition, starting to investigate patients with high alt values, if they drank more than one cup of dripping coffee a day, the proportion of patients whose alt values decreased above 20IU/L after 1 year (37% vs.22%). And the greater the amount of dripping coffee, 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, patients with hepatitis C are mainly treated with interferon to eliminate hepatitis C virus, but due to side effects and other problems, some patients can not receive interferon treatment. For these patients, drinking coffee as a living habit should be encouraged.
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 result has been published in the 11th issue of Public Library of Science, an American online science magazine.
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