In most types of liver disease, the ALT level is higher than AST and the AST/ALT ratio will be low (less than 1). There are a few exceptions; the AST/ALT ratio is usually increased in alcoholic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and in the first day or two of acute hepatitis or injury from bile duct obstruction.
The modern number system was invented by the Indians. Despite that, the numeral system used today is called Arabic or Hindu-Arabic because the Arabs were the ones to bring it to Europe.
The Chinese and the Indians used to work on numbers but they always had problems in solving negative solutions which they called as false problems. The invention of negative numbers was not like someone eventually invented it but it is based on the contributions of a number of people.Diophantus in the third century A.D. Called the equation 4x + 20 = 0, an absurd equation because it had the negative solution.he invention of negative numbers was not like someone eventually invented it but it is based on the contributions of a number of people. Diophantus in the third century A.D.