Health experts have warned that "immediate action" is needed to tackle rising numbers of a disease that kills around 4,000 people in the UK each year - but is "almost entirely preventable".
Liver disease is any condition that impacts the ability of the liver to perform in a normal and healthy way. Your liver plays a number of crucial roles in your body, from filtering your blood to aiding digestion, removing toxins, and producing vital vitamins and minerals, so when it isn't working properly it can have a serious impact on your health - and cases of liver disease are growing.
Latest NHS data showed that hospital admissions where the primary diagnosis was liver disease increased by 22% in the financial year ending in 2022. There were a total of 82,290 admissions in 2022, compared to 67,458 in 2021 - following an increasing trend that has seen the number of people being hospitalised due to liver disease rise by almost 47% within the last decade, BirminghamLive reports.
