Scienceblogtwo

According to research published today in the European Publication of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the ESC1, drinking two to three cups of coffee per day is associated with a longer lifetime and a lower risk of cardiovascular disease.1 The conclusions held true for decaffeinated, instant, and ground variants. According to study author Professor Peter Kistler of the Baker Heart and Diabetes Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, "in this large, observational study, ground, instant, and decaffeinated coffee were associated with equivalent reductions in the incidence of cardiovascular disease and death from cardiovascular disease or any cause." The findings imply that a mild to moderate intake of ground, instant, and decaffeinated coffee should be regarded as a component of a healthy lifestyle. The effects of various coffee preparations on heart health and survival are poorly understood. Using data from the UK Biobank, which included adults between the ages of 40 and ...

The liver is a crucial organ in the body's processing of all the many substances we put into it, including food, drink, alcohol, and narcotics. When the liver malfunctions, the results might be fatal. Scarring, also known as liver fibrosis, is the primary cause of many liver illnesses, including hepatitis and Non-Alcoholic SteatoHepatitis, or NASH. At this time, there are no medications available to cure this scarring. In order to find possible targets for medications in the future, researchers are looking into the underlying causes of liver fibrosis. A chemical responsible for the bile duct cells' unchecked proliferation inside the liver has been identified by a U-M study. The bile duct cells are injured in diseased livers, according to Liangyou Rui, Ph.D., the Louis G. D'Alecy Collegiate Professor of Physiology. The liver must constantly produce new bile duct cells, but occasionally these cells malfunction, resulting in inflammation and scarring. Rui notes that this incre...