#alcoholic fatty liver disease

Fatty liver disease is caused by excess fat in the liver. When fat accumulates, the liver becomes inflamed and damaged.

In a Phase IIa trial, the drug DUR-928 was associated with numerous positive outcomes after 28 days.

Researchers argue that the distinctions between the two conditions are quite blurred.

Heavy drinking, viral hepatitis and fatty liver disease have all started taking their toll on U.S. baby boomers.

Another hepatitis is outpacing hepatitis C in terms of seriousness: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and you can prevent it.

However, NAFLD is by far the most common cause of cirrhosis among all ethnic groups in this country.

New insights into why the amount of alcohol it takes to cause liver injury varies so widely from person to person.

The primary medications that international guidelines recommend for alcoholic steatohepatitis (ASH) do not affect mortality rates.

An average of four to 10 years earlier than their white and black counterparts.

The use of noninvasive alternatives to liver biopsies to assess liver disease in people with HCV is becoming increasingly more common.