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Consuming Coffee Linked to Lower Risk of Detrimental Liver Disease
Regular consumption of coffee is associated with a reduced risk of primary sclerosing cholangitis(PSC), an autoimmune liver disease, Mayo Clinic research shows. The findings were being presented at the Digestive Disease Week 2013 conference in Orlando, Fla.
PSC is an inflammatory disease of the bile ducts that results in inflammation and subsequent fibrosis that can lead to cirrhosis of the liver, liver failure and biliary cancer.
“While rare, PSC has extremely detrimental effects,” says study author Craig Lammert, M.D., a Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist. “We’re always looking for ways to mitigate risk, and our first-time finding points to a novel environmental factor that also might help us to determine the cause of this and other devastating autoimmune diseases.”
The study examined a large group of U.S. patients with PSC and primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) and a group of healthy patients. Data showed that coffee consumption was associated with reduced risk of PSC, but not PBC. PSC patients were much likelier not to consume coffee than healthy patients were. The PSC patients also spent nearly 20 percent less of their time regularly drinking coffee than the control.
The study suggests PSC and PBC differ more than originally thought, Konstantinos Lazaridis, M.D., a Mayo Clinic hepatologist and senior study author says: “Moving forward, we can look at what this finding might tell us about the causes of these diseases and how to better treat them.”
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The grim reality is, once Yahoo acquires Tumblr, they’ll be monitoring the content hosted. If you’re not in the know, that means no adult content of any kind given how Yahoo treats their sites that they’ve bought out.
This just clearly shows how out of touch and desperate Yahoo as a company is….
if you ever think that you’ve made a big mistake, just remember that in 1788 the Austrian army attacked itself and lost 10,000 men
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I. LOVE. AISHA. TYLER!
Oh here’s an image version.
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IT WAS ULTIMATELY DECIDED IT WOULD BE UNACCEPTABLE TO HAVE SOME SKIN SHOWING DUE TO HER ROLE AS A CELIBATE WARRIOR MONK
That redesign is just wonderful. As someone who plays Mass Effect I can honestly say this is much closer to the game’s look. The outfit looks more like she has an actual role now, instead of your basic sexy scifi outfit.
Love this design but no where in the canon does it say justicars are celibate.
And? Samara is.
Ah…thanks for reminding me again how much I hate her vanilla outfit. And how awesome your redesign is.
I’m glad you’ve got the spirit to rebuke these unwashed trolls.
I see nothing wrong with her normal outfit. Saying that she can’t show skin is like saying you can’t be romantically interested in Liara or Tali.
oh for fucks sake don’t even start down this line of ‘logic’
you know exactly what’s wrong with her normal outfit
i’m one who doesn’t mind her vanilla outfit but this is a great redesign and looks better. i mean, i think samara can show cleavage if she wants to, but we all know why her outfit is the way it is. sexy blue babe sex appeal for the unwashed masses.
New design wins. I never understood the in-character reasoning for why Samara’s outfit had a cleavage window.
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