Does Vitamin D Have a Role To Improve Viral Response in Liver Disease
Latest Israeli Report Suggests that Vitamin D Might Have a Place
Should patients with liver disease be monitored for vitamin D deficiency? The answer is yes."All hepatologists (liver specialists) should monitor vitamin D levels and treat deficient patients". The role of Vitamin D in prevention and treatment of liver disease has been and continues to be a topic of speculation and investigation.
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Taking "the promising results of vitamin D administration in experimental autoimmune animal models into account, it's intriguing to speculate that vitamin D may also have potential beneficial effects in autoimmune liver disease in man".
Several forms of vitamin D exist. The two major forms are vitamin D2 or ergocalciferol, and vitamin D3 or cholecalciferol, vitamin D without a subscript refers to either D2 or D3 or both. These are known collectively as calciferol.
"Prof. Ran Tur-Kaspa, from the Rabin Medical Center- Beilinson Campus in Israel and his team worked on hepatitis C, the major factor in chronic liver disease that can lead to cirrhosis. It is also the main cause in the Western world of organ failure requiring a liver transplant and is one of the causes of primary liver cancer".
"He and his team investigated ordinary vitamin D, which is already taken by many people as prevention for numerous diseases, to see whether it had any effect on hepatitis C and on liver cells that host it. They discovered and published in Hepatology, a peer-reviewed medical journal, that vitamin D directly halts the activity of viruses in general and hepatitis C in particular. They also found that a system for actively producing vitamin D is found in liver cells and can activate the immune system and repress the virus".
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