 90C treatment, virus dies in ever lower temperature.Chronic Liver Disease (CLD) is a cause of mortality and morbidity the world over, especially in low-income countries with limited treatment facilities and high disease burden. Until now, everyone knew that coffee was good for Liver Diseases but the effect of different types of coffee was not known. A new study from the UK sheds light on the effects of different types of coffee on Chronic Liver Disease.
The new study looked into decaffeinated, instant and ground coffee and its association with Liver diseases. BMC Public Health published the findings. This is the first study that looked into the effect of all types of coffee in liver diseases.
In the study, the researchers found that coffee drinkers had a 21 percent reduced risk of liver disease and a 49 percent lower risk of death from disease.
The study was held in about 4,94,585 UK Biobank participants. The researchers used Cox regression to estimate Hazard Ratios (HR) of incident Chronic Liver Disease, incident Liver Disease, incident Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) and even death from the disease.
In the follow up study of 10.7 years, they came across 3600 cases of CLD, 5439 cases of CLD or steatosis, 184 cases of HCC and 301 deaths from CLD among the 3,84,818 coffee drinkers and 1,09,767 non-coffee drinkers. When compared to non-coffee drinkers, coffee drinkers had lower adjusted HRs, CLD, and death. The findings were the same for all types of coffee.
Chronic Liver Disease is a major health problem across the world. In the report, the researchers say that global deaths due to Liver diseases increased from 8,99,000 (1.9 per cent of total) to 1.32 million (2.4 per cent of total) between 1990 and 2017. They also note that Low Income Countries had the highest prevalence of Chronic Liver Disease. Sub-Saharan Africa is the region that is most affected followed by Central and South America, Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia.
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The first word or two of a poem is such a small thing, one word out of many, but in a poem every single word can hold the weight of the entire piece. What about poems that begin with a specific subject for their first word—I, You, She, He, They, a person’s name? Does having a set character at the center of a poem shape the way we read it?
In Sean Bishop’s “At the Optometrist’s I Almost Remember a Story I’ve Almost Remembered Before,” the poem begins with “My father.” Just from the title and first subject, we know the poem’s characters—father and son. The first words and the title give the idea that this is a poem about family knowledge, about stories passed on, the things we keep in our memory without realizing it. The speaker’s father has an old injury, a dented nail, from a factory accident, the poem explains to us. A remembered story, of the father’s injury, isn’t the story of the poem’s title, however. Instead, it is about how our bodies retain the harm done to them, even if our memory doesn’t. The speaker is reminded that he has a tear in his cornea, something he doesn’t remember getting, doesn’t even remember that optometrists often remind him of this during visits. The poem becomes an elegy to the idea of how we remember the ones we’ve lost and the pains they might have endured: “I don’t remember / any trauma. What I do / is my father: how when he was ashamed, / or sorry, he’d tuck his mangled nail into his palm.” So a return to the subject of the poem, introduced in the very first words—the speaker’s father. The poem becomes as cyclical as grief and memory—how these images of pain can be returned to again and again, long after we’ve thought we forgot them.
In Jacqueline Jones Lamon’s “Ten Items or Less,” the very first word is “JenJen.” JenJen is the little girl at the center of the poem. “JenJen wasn’t giving up,” we’re told, though as the poem progresses we learn that she’ll be losing because of this. The first line becomes a kind of taunt to what happens: “JenJen wasn’t giving up / a sip of her soda, not even / a taste, not even to her sister” reads the full first sentence. From this we know much about our character: JenJen is a typical older sister, a little bossy, a little unfair to her little sister. JenJen is in charge of keeping an eye on her sister. Two-thirds of the way through the poem, though, the focus shifts gently as the reader’s gaze becomes JenJen’s, watching her sister angrily stomp away to buy her own soda. None of the remaining lines are devoted to JenJen, our “main” character, but instead make us the hapless viewer along with her as the poem ends: “She was last seen here: thirsty and ruffling / her pockets, for change. Summer, / 1962. An eight-year-old black girl / in pink pants and flip flops, / who never talked to strangers, / a scar above one eye.” It’s here where the reader understands what they missed, tricked by the misdirection of the poem’s beginning—we started with JenJen and have been keeping our eyes on her, when—just like JenJen—we should’ve been watching out for Jasmine, her sister. It’s a devastating sleight of hand.
How poets choose to deploy those first words and who they ask us to focus on helps determine the way we read the poem and interpret its story. A great poem forces us to rethink how we are reading it—showing us the way we interpret memory or loss, the things we have in front of us and the things we cannot see coming.This week on World Ocean Radio: part fifteen of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we look at the Federal Reserve in the USA through the lens of environmental destruction, biodiversity loss and other impacts. And we ask, "Why would any central bank enable investment that is proven to be destructive to the value of Nature--our most precious asset?" The "BLUEprint Series: How the Ocean Will Save Civilization" outlines a new and sustainable path forward, with the ocean leading the way.Ilona Andrews writes books that I can read and re-read and Sapphire Flames is another favorite. This book was such a fun action packed read, it ended too soon and left me hungry for the next book. If you are looking for action packed paranormal romance with strong independent women characters this book and this entire series is for you. The men are there to be supportive, smart, and bring muscle, but it is the women who make the tough decisions and show just how powerful being smart can be!
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Another fantastic story in this outstanding series that has everything you want in a in a great paranormal/fantasy read. The writing is superb with characters that jump off the pages in heart-pounding action adventure storylines that always satisfy. I've loved this series from the start with the spunky oldest sister Nevada and the hunky Mad Rogan and there has been no letdown with the continuation of the series. I'm so excited to move on to the siblings with Catalina up first as the new head of House Baylor in the game of magic users and the Prime hierarchy. And she gets a dreamy (mostly) Italian hottie as her love interest. Alessandro makes a different kind of magic happen! But their encounters aren't all hearts and flowers as the couple face challenge after challenge and are at odds quite a bit. As usual there's violence galore and blood and bits flying as these magic users do their thing. I will say there seemed to be a few discrepancies with the previous stories and missing characters but not enough to overshadow the enjoyment of this one. This writing duo has a talent for spectacular storytelling with unique characters and along with the gore parts there's also romance and some hilarious moments. I love this crazy Baylor family and can't wait for the next installment. I voluntarily reviewed an ARC.
I love this, I was afraid that I was still to invested in Rogan and Nevada that I wouldn’t like it but I did and I want so much more! I am glad that she pushed Catalina’s character to grow up and to stand out more. I still want another Rogan and Nevada story, especially with what she let us know what’s going on with them. Though any book would be wonderful at this time, Il