World Liver Health Day, the prevention campaign begins with free checks at the Irccs “S. De Bellis” in Castellana

Assess the health status of your liver through an awareness campaign for citizens scheduled from 19 April 2024. The National Institute of Gastroenterology “S. de Bellis” in Castellana Grotte joins the initiative promoted on the occasion of World Liver Day, offering the possibility of carrying out a free assessment of the health of one’s liver. To participate, simply register until May 19th, online at https://tinyurl.com/bdfk2mcx and answer a short questionnaire to be started on the most suitable diagnostic path. “ Liver diseases, depending on the different etiology, explains the scientific director Gianluigi Giannelli, affect around a third of the world’s population, are often diagnosed late as they are not very symptomatic, and this entails the risk of a diagnosis that is sometimes too late. Hence the importance of an awareness campaign that the Irccs “De Bellis” supports through prevention, starting from fatty liver disease up to liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma”. Throughout the month, information initiatives will follow to explain the importance of prevention which necessarily involves the adoption of a correct lifestyle, up to adhering to a surveillance program for patients with an advanced stage of disease in order to identify the most the possible development of a liver tumor is possible early. Furthermore, underlines the president of Civ Enzo Delvecchio, “a team of doctors, nutritionists and researchers will put a detailed diagnostic program at the service of the citizen and will follow the patient for any therapies or to propose an experimental dietary regime. An intense activity, therefore, which – concludes Delvecchio – will be completely free for the citizen made possible by the “Salus in Apulia 2.0″ research project financed by the Puglia Region”.