HOW important is the liver? Next to the heart and the kidney, it is perhaps one of the most important but often least attended-to organs of the body.
According to Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, the liver is the one that regulates the presence of most chemical levels in the blood, and is responsible for excreting bile, the one that carries waste products from the liver. The liver is known to perform over 500 other vital functions, but it primarily breaks down harmful substances, it said.
Data from the Philippine Statistics Authority showed that liver disease is the cause of death of 27.3 cases per 1,000 deaths in the country in 2020, with liver cirrhosis responsible for 31.8 percent of liver-related deaths in the country, with malignant disease of the liver at 35.8 percent, and viral hepatitis at 5.3 percent.
She said that another factor is lack of education, that people have not fully grasped the value of the liver’s functions and its crucial role in maintaining overall health. “Essentially, it’s not necessarily just about excessive alcohol consumption but it’s about continuously adopting unhealthy habits like poor diet, a stressful lifestyle, lack of exercise, among others.”
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