With our over-dependence on manufactured food, changing dietary habits, stress and sedentary lifestyles, liver disease has become more common and widespread than ever. TheHealthSite.com
Although Covid primarily targets lungs and is majorly a respiratory disease, the virus affects nearly all organs in the human body, including the liver.
The studies come amidst a global rise in cases of acute hepatitis among children with no-known origin . The liver disease that was first reported in the UK in April, has spread to 21 countries - with 450 cases and 12 deaths, according to the World Health Organisation.
Two recent studies have reported acute hepatitis among children during the Covid pandemic in India, amid the global outbreak in mysterious cases of the liver inflammation in kids.A study posted on a preprint server, meaning it is not .