Fatty liver disease means fat has built up inside liver cells. It is grouped by cause: the metabolic form — now usually called metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), and previously non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) — and the alcohol-related form (ALD, or alcoholic fatty liver disease). The two can overlap.
Early fatty liver often causes no symptoms at all and is picked up incidentally on an ultrasound or a routine blood test. Left unaddressed it can progress through inflammation (steatohepatitis) to scarring (fibrosis) and, in a minority of people, to cirrhosis. The articles below explain the condition itself before getting into what to do about it.
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