Both fatty liver disease and high blood pressure can lead to death, through heart problems and other complications. So it’s important to get treatment and find out how to manage these conditions.

Liver disease includes any condition that damages your liver. Over time, scar tissue can build up in your liver. Scarring or fibrosis can progress over many years until you develop cirrhosis—the most ...

Doctors can diagnose fatty liver disease, now called metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), using blood tests that measure serum liver enzyme levels. Elevated enzyme ...

Adding other clues of fatty liver disease, like body mass index (an estimate of body fat based on height and weight) and daily exercise, boosted the blood test's accuracy even more - more than 90% ...

Participants treated with semaglutide also saw improvements in liver enzymes and blood measures of liver fibrosis, as well as 10.5% weight loss.

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is closely associated with other chronic conditions such as sleep apnea, type 2 diabetes, and high blood pressure (hypertension).

Roche is rolling out a new diagnostic test to help assess hidden liver fibrosis in patients showing signs of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, or MASLD. The company said ...