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BETSI Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) is hosting a virtual stall focusing on the COVID-19 vaccination and testing programme at its health and wellbeing event this week. On Thursday, February 25, the Bite Sized Health and Wellbeing event brings together a range of online stalls from various organisations and charities including BCUHB, Diabetes UK, Flint Library and Wellbeing Hub, British Liver Trust, Conwy Mind, Age Cymru and many more. The BCUHB virtual stall will be open at various times throughout the day for people to drop into via session links to Microsoft Teams. The stall will be about the COVID-19 Test, Trace and Protect programme, and will present the latest information on the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme. Members of staff will also be available to answer questions placed in the chat option.
Unlike most major diseases, the mortality rate for liver cirrhosis continues to increase and is four times higher than 40 years ago.
The Cirrhosis Using Standard tests (Cirrus) algorithm was used to analyse anonymised NHS data from blood tests from 600,000 patients.
It picked up 70% of people with cirrhosis potentially months or years before they would have a medical emergency with liver disease, and the accuracy rate of the test was about 90%.
Professor Nick Sheron, of the Foundation for Liver Research, who started the study published in the journal BMJ Open, said early diagnosis could prompt a change in lifestyle and prevent serious disease.