{"id":4237,"date":"2022-04-19T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=4237"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:10:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:10:55","slug":"mayo-clinic-minute-why-more-liver-donors-are-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/04\/19\/mayo-clinic-minute-why-more-liver-donors-are-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayo Clinic Minute: Why more liver donors are needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"4237\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>April is National Donate Life Month. It&#8217;s observed to help raise awareness about the importance of organ donation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the U.S., it\u2019s estimated that\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/liver-disease.htm\" target=\"_blank\">4.5 million<\/a>\u00a0adults are diagnosed with chronic liver disease. It develops over time and may be caused by a number of conditions including,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/hepatitis-b\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20366802?mc_id=us&amp;utm_source=newsnetwork&amp;utm_medium=l&amp;utm_content=content&amp;utm_campaign=mayoclinic&amp;geo=national&amp;placementsite=enterprise&amp;invsrc=other&amp;cauid=100721\" target=\"_blank\">hepatitis<\/a>, genetics,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/alcoholic-hepatitis\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20351388?mc_id=us&amp;utm_source=newsnetwork&amp;utm_medium=l&amp;utm_content=content&amp;utm_campaign=mayoclinic&amp;geo=national&amp;placementsite=enterprise&amp;cauid=100721&amp;_ga=2.263233932.18050210.1617034136-26305255.1611325201?mc_id=us&amp;utm_source=newsnetwork&amp;utm_medium=l&amp;utm_content=content&amp;utm_campaign=mayoclinic&amp;geo=national&amp;placementsite=enterprise&amp;invsrc=other&amp;cauid=100721\" target=\"_blank\">alcohol overuse<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/liver-cancer\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20353659?mc_id=us&amp;utm_source=newsnetwork&amp;utm_medium=l&amp;utm_content=content&amp;utm_campaign=mayoclinic&amp;geo=national&amp;placementsite=enterprise&amp;invsrc=other&amp;cauid=100721\" target=\"_blank\">cancer<\/a>. Chronic\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/liver-problems\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20374502?mc_id=us&amp;utm_source=newsnetwork&amp;utm_medium=l&amp;utm_content=content&amp;utm_campaign=mayoclinic&amp;geo=national&amp;placementsite=enterprise&amp;invsrc=other&amp;cauid=100721\" target=\"_blank\">liver disease\u00a0<\/a>is different than\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/acute-liver-failure\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20352863?mc_id=us&amp;utm_source=newsnetwork&amp;utm_medium=l&amp;utm_content=content&amp;utm_campaign=mayoclinic&amp;geo=national&amp;placementsite=enterprise&amp;invsrc=other&amp;cauid=100721\" target=\"_blank\">acute liver disease<\/a>, which can come on quickly and may be the result of an injury or a virus. Read the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org\/discussion\/mayo-clinic-minute-why-more-liver-donors-are-needed\/\">from the Mayo Clinic here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"4237\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading April is National Donate Life Month. It&#8217;s observed to help raise awareness about the importance of organ donation. In the U.S., it\u2019s estimated that\u00a04.5 million\u00a0adults are diagnosed with chronic &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/04\/19\/mayo-clinic-minute-why-more-liver-donors-are-needed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mayo Clinic Minute: Why more liver donors are needed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":3909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,912,7,34],"tags":[378,172,50],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"","views":"1395","post_likes_plusCounter":"2","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4238,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions\/4238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}