Exercising the hepatobiliary‐gut axis. The impact of physical activity performance

Physical inactivity puts the populations at risk of several health problems, while regular physical activity brings beneficial effects on cardiovascular disease, mortality and other health outcomes, including obesity, glycaemic control and insulin resistance. The hepatobiliary tract is greatly involved in several metabolic aspects which include digestion and absorption of nutrients in concert with intestinal motility, bile acid secretion and flow across the enterohepatic circulation and intestinal microbiota. Several metabolic abnormalities, including nonalcoholic fatty liver as well as cholesterol cholelithiasis, represent two conditions explained by changes of the aforementioned pathways.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  European Journal of Clinical Investigation

• Publication date

  2018-06-14

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/eci.12958PMID 29797516PMCID PMC8118139
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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