NAFLD

High-calorie diet, not sugar intake, promotes non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

High-calorie diet, not sugar intake, promotes the progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), according to research findings. The researchers conducted a double-blind study of healthy but centrally overweight men to compare the effects of two types of sugar – glucose and fructose – in two conditions: weight maintaining and weight gaining. In the weight-maintaining ...click here to read more

Type 2 diabetes exenatide treatment can benefit NAFLD patients due to glucose control in liver: Study

A detailed study presented at The International Liver Congress 2016 in Barcelona, shows that exenatide – a diabetes drug that gets the pancreas to improve glucose absorption – also helps increase glucose uptake and reduce insulin resistance in fatty cells (adipose tissue) and in the livers of NAFLD patients. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is ...click here to read more

This is what your liver needs to stay healthy

Previously, it was believed that only drinkers developed liver disease, but with the rise of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) it seems that alcohol isn’t the number one threat to your liver. Because the name itself – non-alcoholic fatty liver disease – implies fat, many lean people believe they are safe from the condition – ...click here to read more

Fatty liver disease, NASH linked to a 50 percent higher mortality rate than NAFLD

Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is linked to a 50 percent higher mortality than non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). The findings come from a large population-based cohort of nearly one million people in the U.K. The study looked at the overall burden of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality across the spectrum of NAFLD. The four stages of ...click here to read more

Liver fibrosis risk in premenopausal women with NASH is lowered by estrogen

Liver fibrosis risk in premenopausal women with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is lowered by estrogen, according to previous research. Men are typically at a higher risk for severe liver fibrosis, compared to women pre-menopause. But this risk changes during menopause, when women’s risk increases, becoming similar to that in men. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is ...click here to read more

The one thing for a healthy liver

Liver-mortality has moved its way to being one of the top 12 causes of death within the United States. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has risen to be the most common form of liver disease in the Western world. Previously NAFLD was deemed a benign condition, but as research continues to grow it has been ...click here to read more