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Love Your Liver Awareness Month - January 2023

The festive period, with the usual overindulgences of food and alcohol, takes a real toll on your liver and by January it is probably crying out for a break! This time of year certainly highlights the damage we can do to our liver by overeating and drinking alcohol and, according to the British Liver Trust, UK liver disease is on the rise. They say that 90% of liver disease is preventable, with the three main preventable causes being obesity, drinking alcohol and viral hepatitis. 

Love your Liver Awareness Month is a campaign run by the British Liver Trust and is designed to raise awareness of the risks and causes of liver disease and encourage people to take active steps to a healthier lifestyle to improve their liver health.

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES 

For anyone suffering with liver disease themselves, those treating patients with a liver condition or anyone studying liver health, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. 

This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information. 

BOOKS  

JOURNALS  

  • Digestive and Liver Disease, Editrice Gastroenterologica Italiana. (Available as a Keele and NHS Journal from 2000 onwards).
  • Liver International, Blackwell Munksgaard. (Available as a Keele and NHS e-journal from 2003 onwards).
  • Liver Cancer, S. Karger AG. (Available as a Keele and NHS e-journal from 2012 onwards).
  • Journal of Viral Hepatitis, Blackwell Science. (Available as a Keele and NHS e-journal from 1997 onwards).
  • Current Hepatology Reports, Springer. (Available as a Keele and NHS e-journal from 2002 onwards).
  • Journal of Hepatology, Elsevier. (Available as a Keele and NHS e-journal from 1995 onwards)

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/ 

JOURNAL ARTICLES 

  • Miele, Luca; Perna, Alessia; et al; “Clinical characteristics of metabolic associated fatty liver disease”, Digestive and Liver Disease, 2021, Vol.53 (11), p.1451, DOI: 10.1016 / j.dld.2020.12.010. [Available via Keele and NHS e-journals]
  • Coste, Pablo; Llop, Elba; et al; “Comparison of non-invasive fibrosis scores to predict increased liver stiffness in the general population with unknown liver disease: Searching for the primary physician's best friend”, Digestive and Liver Disease, 2022, Vol.54 (9), p.1209-1214, DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2022.03.013. [Available via Keele and NHS e-journals]
  • Berzigotti, Annalisa; Tsochatzis, Emmanouil; et al; “EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines on non-invasive tests for evaluation of liver disease severity and prognosis – 2021 update”, Journal of Hepatology, 2021, Vol.75 (3), p.659-689, DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2021.05.025. [Available via Keele and NHS e-journals]
  • Ji, Dong; Qin, Enqiang; et al; “Non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases in patients with COVID-19: A retrospective study”, Journal of Hepatology, 2020, Vol.73 (2), p.451-45, DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2020.03.044. [Available via Keele and NHS e-journals]
  • Nagra, Navroop; Kozarek, Richard A; Burman, Blaire E; “Therapeutic Advances in Viral Hepatitis A–E”, Advances in Therapy, 2022, Vol.39 (4), p.1524-1552, DOI: 10.1007/s12325-022-02070-z. [Available via Keele and NHS e-journals]
  • Francque SM, Marchesini G et al; “Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A patient guideline.” JHEP Rep. 2021, Vol.3 (5):100322. doi: 10.1016/j.jhepr.2021.100322. [Available via Keele and NHS e-journals].

N.B. NHS staff who are members of the Health Library can request a temporary Keele username which allows access to Keele e-journals from the Keele IT Suite in the Health Library within the CEC at Royal Stoke.

 

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE: 

KnowledgeShare CURRENT AWARENESS:  

KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates is a personalised current awareness service which sends, straight to your email inbox, new evidence on topics tailored to your requirements and collated by Health Librarians. For more information, or to register for KnowledgeShare please go to https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/currentawareness/. 

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