Prague, July 30 (CTK) – Every other Czech woman and 79 percent of Czech men have problems with liver, according to the results of tests conducted on 3,518 people all over the country in June within the National Health preventive programme, daily Pravo writes Saturday.
The liver condition is affected by inflammatory diseases, hepatitis as well as exorbitant alcohol consumption, it adds.
The free monitoring dubbed “I Like My Liver” and organised by the Synlab Czech laboratory group has shown that “Czechs do not like their liver actually,” Pravo says.
“Women have reached better results than men for the first time in the history of the preventive programme. Over 50 percent of them had at least one monitored liver parameter above/below the standard level, while in the group of men it was 79 percent,” Zdenek Soudny, from Synlab, which organises a free screening of one organ or body condition every quarter, told Pravo.
Men’s bad results reflect their approach to lifestyle, unsuitable diet and mainly “their more positive relation to alcohol,” compared with women, said Tomas Hradek, head doctor of the Synlab biochemistry and haematology section.
The people whose blood analysis indicates liver problems need not always be ill, but they should take the result seriously and change their lifestyle, Pravo says.
“The results of the check-up at least point put that something is out of order. It is one of the last warnings saying if they do not start looking after their liver properly, even a slight deviation may develop into a fatally life-threatening condition,” Hradek added.
The Synlab laboratories examined the ALT and AST enzyme levels, which indicate liver damage by inflammation, the bilirubin level, higher concentrations of which indicate hepatitis, and for the first time also the GGT and CDT factors that reveal alcohol-related damage, Pravo says.
Men over 50 and women over 65 had bad results more often than other age groups, while women between 30 and 50 and men from 18 to 30 had most often good results, Pravo writes.
According to the Czech Statistical Office (CSU), some 1,500 people annually die of problems connected with alcohol consumption in the Czech Republic with the population of 10.5 million.
A crushing majority of them die of liver cirrhosis caused by excessive drinking. In 2014 alone, 1,324 people died of liver cirrhosis and 210 of alcohol poisoning, Pravo writes.
A nationwide survey shows that about one-third of men and less than 10 percent of women drink so much that it harms their health and almost 4 percent of men and only 0.3 percent of women need treatment because of a serious drinking-related health trouble.
However, according to data of the World Health Organisation (WHO), the total alcohol consumption, both of wine and beer, drops year-on-year in the Czech Republic as well as in the surrounding countries, Pravo writes.
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Prague, July 29 (CTK) – Information on the investigation of suspected manipulations of IT orders leaked from a phone used by the relatives of Police President Tomas Tuhy, former anti-mafia police chief Robert Slachta told a parliamentary investigative commission on Thursday, public Czech Radio (CRo) reported Friday.
CRo said two different sources confirmed this.
But Tuhy said the commission’s chairman Pavel Blazek told him that Slachta did not say anything like this.
Tuhy said Blazek apologised to him for the alleged leak of information from the commission’s meeting and he said Slachta did not tell this about the police president and his family to the commission.
Tuhy resolutely rejected any suspicions of his implication in information leaks and he considers them “deliberately fabricated stories that are told to denigrate him and consequently undermine the police management.”
The radio quotes Slachta as saying the detectives did not have evidence of Tuhy’s involvement in the leaks, but only indications.
The detectives revealed that somebody seemed to be leaking information about the investigation of IT orders via a phone previously used by Tuhy’s relatives, probably his wife. The cellular phone had a different SIM card than Tuhy’s relatives had used, Slachta told the commission according to CRo.
On July 28, Slachta talked five hours to the lower house commission dealing with the suspicions related to the challenged police shake-up within which the anti-mafia and anti-corruption squads will merge as of August 1.
Slachta said he told the commission everything he wanted to tell and was satisfied with the hearing.
Slachta recently resigned from the post of the anti-mafia police chief in protest against the planned shake-up.
CRo reported that Slachta told the commission his former subordinate Jiri Komarek would tell them more details about the case. Komarek, who accused Tuhy of a brutal information leak, is to meet the commission in August.
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