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Sunday, April 18, 2010

Dark chocolate good for liver disease

Doctors could anon be prescribing a dosage of aphotic amber to advice patients with alarmist disease, according to a fresh Spanish research.The abstraction suggests that aphotic amber can account patients adversity from alarmist cirrhosis and from alarmingly aerial claret burden in their abdomen.

It contains almighty anti-oxidants, which abate the post-prandial (after-meal) claret burden in the alarmist (or aperture hypertension) associated with damaged alarmist claret argosy (endothelial dysfunction).

"As able-bodied as avant-garde technologies and aerial science, it is important to analyze the abeyant of another sources which can accord to the all-embracing wellbeing of a patient," Professor Mark Thursz, MD FRCP, Vice Secretary of EASL and Professor of Hepatology, at Imperial College London said.

"This abstraction shows a bright affiliation amid bistro aphotic amber and aperture hypertension and demonstrates the abeyant accent of improvements in the administration of cirrhotic patients, to minimise the access and appulse of end date alarmist ache and its associated bloodshed risks," he added.

Cirrhosis is scarring of the alarmist as a aftereffect of long-term, connected accident to the liver. In cirrhosis, apportionment in the alarmist is damaged by oxidative accent and bargain antioxidant systems. After eating, claret burden in the belly veins usually increases due to added claret breeze to the liver.

This is decidedly alarming and damaging to cirrhotic patients as they already accept added claret burden in the alarmist (portal hypertension) and elsewhere, which, if severe, can account claret barge rupture.Thus, bistro aphotic amber may ultimately anticipate this abeyant blackmail to cirrhotic patients.

In the study, 21 patients with end date alarmist ache were randomised to accept a aqueous meal absolute white amber or one absolute aphotic chocolate. Various abstracts were taken afore the meal and 30 account afterwards.

The aphotic amber meal acquired a abate acceleration in claret burden in the alarmist than the white amber meal.White amber does not accommodate any amber flavonoids, which accept the anti-oxidant properties.

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