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Comparative Studies | Biomedical Sciences | Sri Lanka | Volume 6 Issue 12, December 2017 | Popularity: 6.5 / 10
To Identify and Examine the Different Causes of Liver Disease in Sri Lanka
Fahim Aslam, Hashan Kulasena
Abstract: Liver disease is one of the main causes for deaths in Sri Lanka, this is the second most common disease causing deaths in hospitals in Sri Lanka after the heart disease. Sri Lanka ranks eighty-nine (89) in the world rankings for liver disease causing 3349 deaths according to the data published by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the 2014 calendar year and an average of 15.28 deaths per hundred thousand. The two most common forms of this disease is non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and alcoholic fatty liver disease. The data collected by the WHO is analyzed and the different causes for the liver disease is identified between the period of 1980-2010, using the different factors responsible for the cause of the disease data is distinguished. Of the data collected and analyzed most causes of liver disease in Sri Lanka is due to the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) or alcoholic fatty liver disease which leads to severe complications such as renal failure, liver cirrhosis and eventually death
Keywords: NAFLD, AFLD
Edition: Volume 6 Issue 12, December 2017
Pages: 608 - 615
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