Steatohepatitis/Metabolic Liver Disease News

An analysis of ED utilization from 2016 to 2019 revealed an increase in visits for alcohol-associated hepatitis, particularly among patients aged 25 to 44 years, as well as an increase in disease severity.

In a Healio video exclusive, Edward V. Loftus Jr., MD, urged gastroenterologists to familiarize themselves with a “four-pronged approach to liver disease” ahead of the critical shortage of U.S. hepatologists expected by 2033.

Chronic liver disease is the ninth leading cause of death in the United States, independent of liver cancer. According to the CDC, only 1.8% of adult Americans have a diagnosis of chronic liver disease, which translates to 4.5 million people.

Finding adequate providers with the expertise to treat the growing population of patients with chronic liver diseases, including metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, is a challenging but important endeavor.

Alcohol use disorder has a huge impact on liver health. Regardless of whether patients have other primary etiology for liver disease, alcohol — even in minimal amounts — can worsen liver outcomes.

Adherence to treatment with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists may lower the long-term risk for major adverse liver outcomes among patients with chronic liver disease and type 2 diabetes, according to data in Gut.

The FDA has granted 510(k) clearance to Nanox’s HealthFLD artificial intelligence software to aid clinicians in the detection of fatty liver associated with hepatic steatosis, according to a company press release.

Individuals with alcohol-related liver disease and frequent health care utilization were at greater risk for mortality and hospital readmission, respectively, according to a cohort study of alcohol-related hospitalizations in Canada.

Women with concurrent metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and alcohol-related liver disease had an 83% greater risk for all-cause mortality than men and those with ALD alone had 160% greater risk, data showed.

Chronic hepatitis B virus infection was positively linked with severe hepatic necroinflammation in children with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease but did not appear to affect hepatic fibrosis, according to data.