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Some 20% of those with NAFLD also showed signs of liver fibrosis.

Advanced stages of NAFLD were more commonly seen in people whose mothers had obesity or overweight during pregnancy.

With every centimeter increase in waist circumference, the risk of severe fibrosis rose by 5%.

That means the Alaskan man, who contracted hepatitis C in 1976, and his shi tzu walked a distance equal to a lap around the Earth.

Study finds that lean people with NAFLD had a higher risk for liver events, cancer and mortality.

Weight loss, exercise and a healthy diet are keys to managing type 2 diabetes.

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

Weight-loss surgery especially reduced obesity-related cancers in people with liver cirrhosis.

People with both obesity and liver steatosis were at greater risk for hospitalization with COVID-19.

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

We can control the diet and help our liver, so it’s important to understand what foods are healthy and unhealthy for this vital organ.

The diabetes medication, alone or in combination regimens, led to improvements in NASH and fibrosis.

New guidelines recommend focusing on healthy foods but don’t restrict added sugars or alcohol as much as some experts had hoped.

On the whole, lean individuals had lower prevalence for these conditions than people with overweight or obesity.

Lowering body mass index from obese to overweight cuts individuals’ risk of death by more than half later in life.

Nearly a quarter of lean HIV-positive people in a recent study had NAFLD, and 16% of them developed fibrosis.