Fatigue, abdominal swelling, changes in urine, nausea, and vomiting are a few common symptoms of fatty liver disease.

Americans who drink heavily are more than twice as likely to develop significant liver disease compared to 20 years ago, ...

Alcohol-related liver disease (ALD). Heavy alcohol use causes fat buildup in your liver, inflammation, and scarring. With ALD, you have a 10% to 20% chance of developing cirrhosis.

Even with liver disease and even if someone’s cirrhotic, they’ll have no symptoms until we get what we call decompensated cirrhosis,” he explained. “This is a very, very silent disease.” ...

The liver’s fat stockpile takes up 5% to 10% of the organ’s total weight in people with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver diseases (MASLD, formerly called nonalcoholic fatty ...

Damaged human livers can repair themselves. Even livers badly scarred from excessive alcohol use, including alcohol-related hepatitis and cirrhosis, have the potential to improve with a treatment plan ...

When hearing the words "fatty liver disease," one might automatically assume it is alcohol-related. After all, the liver is the organ responsible for breaking down most of the alcohol we consume ...

MASLD, which was known until recently as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, is estimated to affect nearly 4 in 10 people worldwide. It is the fastest-growing reason that people require liver ...