A high-fat diet is not enough to cause short-term fatty liver disease. However, if this diet is combined with the intake of beverages sweetened with liquid fructose, the accumulation of fats in the liver accelerates and hypertriglyceridemia — a cardiovascular risk factor — can appear.
This is explained in a study on a mouse experimental model, published in the journal Molecular Nutrition and Food Research and led by Professor Juan Carlos Laguna, from the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, the Institute of Biomedicine of the University of Barcelona (IBUB) and the Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition Networking Biomedical Research Centre (CIBEROBN).
The study counts on the collaboration of the researchers Aleix Sala-Vila and Iolanda Lázaro, from the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), and José Rodríguez-Morató, from IMIM-Hospital del Mar and MELIS-Pompeu…
