#fatty liver disease

More than a third of hepatocellular carcinoma cases among Medicare recipients were due to fatty liver disease.

Higher daily alcohol consumption was linked to greater risk for MAFLD.

Noninvasive imaging may be the best way to screen for NAFLD in this population.

Three checkpoint inhibitors reduce the risk of death for patients with hard-to-treat liver and biliary tract cancers.

Abdominal obesity worsened the impact of air pollution on MAFLD development.

Over the next two decades, obesity-linked NASH will lead to more deaths and high cost in the United States.

Research has shown that elevated levels of iron in the blood from hereditary hemochromatosis can raise the risk of HCC.

However, no association was found between drinking coffee and liver fat accumulation.

From 1995 to 2016, hepatocellular carcinoma incidence in rural populations climbed by 218%.

But a simple improvement in dietary intake reversed fatty liver disease and staved off cancer.

Sintilimab plus chemotherapy infused into a liver artery may offer the chance for a cure.

A companion study will look at liver biopsy results to confirm these findings from noninvasive tests.

An extra booster dose raised antibody levels in one third of people with organ transplants, but many remain unprotected.

The early cancer is detected, the easier it is to treat.

Excess weight, which is often linked to metabolic abnormalities, can contribute to a wide variety of health problems.

The disease has similar prevalence across high-income and low- and middle-income nations.