What is it about?
This article shows that through the regular practice of physical activity it is possible to obtain several benefits in health quality and metabolic aspects. Patients infected by hepatitis C virus (HCV) have a double impairment due to the virus activity and replication in hepatocytes and as a consequence generates disorders in hepatic metabolism and is related to the onset of metabolic syndromes and fatty liver.
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Why is it important?
Our findings shows that the regular practice of physical activity is a fundamental tool for prevention and treatment of fatty liver in patients infected by HCV especially those with genotype 3. In addition, regular physical activity is associated with the maintenance of variables related to hepatic and biochemical damage, attenuating the clinical features of these patients.
Perspectives
This article represents the multidisciplinary team work in the areas of medicine, biology and especially physical education. In addition, our findings shows that those patients that suffer from fatty liver diseases and others disorders (viral hepatitis) should increase their daily levels of physical activity to control several co-morbidities in which these diseases are responsible to develop while they do not receive the proper clinical treatment.
Lucas de Lucena Simões e Silva
Universidade de São Paulo - USP
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This page is a summary of: Physical activity as a protective factor against development of liver steatosis in patients infected with hepatitis C, Biomedical Human Kinetics, July 2018, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/bhk-2018-0014.
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