Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

By 2040, researchers predict 75% of cirrhosis cases in North America will be due to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease with a nearly 350% increase in women born after 1980, according to a presenter at the Digital International Liver Conference.

A multidisciplinary nonalcoholic fatty liver disease approach effectively improved liver-related and cardiovascular risk factors, according to research presented at The Digital International Liver Congress.

For healthy patients, miR-34a may be a reliable biomarker to effectively rule-out nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, according to research presented at The Digital International Liver Congress.

The annual risk for cirrhosis based on liver stiffness criteria was 7% among patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease enriched with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, according to research presented at The Digital International Liver Congress.

Investigators have recently published ample data from several nonalcoholic steatohepatitis studies.

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease was independently linked to recurrent atrial fibrillation after AF ablation, according to findings published in JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology.

There are many people in the United States living with viral hepatitis, which can lead to liver health problems such as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.

An aerobic exercise program may help improve histologic endpoints in patients with metabolic dysfunction associated fatty liver disease, according to study results.

These reports include new research on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and cirrhosis.

Standard of care lifestyle counseling correlated with improvements in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis or fibrosis in half of the children with nonalcoholic fatty liver, according to study results publish in Gastroenterology.