To identify and examine the different causes of liver disease in Sri Lanka
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 deathCitation
Aslam, F. and Kulasena, H. (2017) To identify and examine the different causes of liver disease in Sri Lanka, International Journal of Science and Research, 6(12), pp. 608-615.Journal
International Journal of Science and ResearchAdditional Links
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Journal articleLanguage
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© 2017 The Authors. Published by International Journal of Science and Research. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://www.ijsr.net/get_abstract.php?paper_id=ART20178732ISSN
2319-7064ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.21275/ART20178732
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