{"id":13894,"date":"2024-10-01T09:02:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T09:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=13894"},"modified":"2024-10-01T09:27:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T09:27:01","slug":"masld-what-to-know-about-fatty-liver-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=13894","title":{"rendered":"MASLD: What to Know About Fatty Liver Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Four in 10 people are thought to have a potentially serious liver condition known as MASLD. Reversing it is possible if you catch it early.<\/p>\n

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Geraldine Frank was looking forward to celebrating her 62nd birthday when her son noticed some yellowing in her eyes. He wasn\u2019t too concerned but wanted her to see a doctor.<\/p>\n

It turned out that Ms. Frank\u2019s eyes were showing signs of jaundice. She had cirrhosis, severe scarring of the liver that usually takes years, or even decades, to develop.<\/p>\n

Ms. Frank had been overweight and saw doctors for other conditions, her son David Frank said, but she never mentioned hearing any concerns about her liver. \u201cHow is it possible, with all the medical advances, that nobody knew this was a problem?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Cirrhosis can occur in the late stages of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, or MASLD, which happens when fat builds up in the liver and can lead to inflammation and scarring. MASLD, which was known until recently as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, is estimated to affect nearly 4 in 10 people worldwide<\/a>. It is the fastest-growing reason<\/a> that people require liver transplants in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s possible to stop its progression or even reverse the damage, but patients often aren\u2019t diagnosed until it\u2019s too late to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s largely asymptomatic, until it\u2019s not,\u201d said Dr. Meena B. Bansal, chief of the division of liver diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. \u201cAnd usually when it\u2019s symptomatic it\u2019s quite advanced.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Four in 10 people are thought to have a potentially serious liver condition known as MASLD. Reversing it is possible if you catch it early.Geraldine Frank was looking forward to celebrating her 62nd birthday when her son noticed some yellowing in her eyes. He wasn\u2019t too concerned but wanted her to see a doctor.It turned out that Ms. Frank\u2019s eyes were showing signs of jaundice. She had cirrhosis, severe scarring of the liver that usually takes years, or even decades, to develop.Ms. Frank had been overweight and saw doctors for other conditions, her son David Frank said, but she never mentioned hearing any concerns about her liver. \u201cHow is it possible, with all the medical advances, that nobody knew this was a problem?\u201d he said.Cirrhosis can occur in the late stages of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, or MASLD, which happens when fat builds up in the liver and can lead to inflammation and scarring. MASLD, which was known until recently as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, is estimated to affect nearly 4 in 10 people worldwide. It is the fastest-growing reason that people require liver transplants in the United States.It\u2019s possible to stop its progression or even reverse the damage, but patients often aren\u2019t diagnosed until it\u2019s too late to do so.\u201cIt\u2019s largely asymptomatic, until it\u2019s not,\u201d said Dr. Meena B. Bansal, chief of the division of liver diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. \u201cAnd usually when it\u2019s symptomatic it\u2019s quite advanced.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13896,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13897,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13894\/revisions\/13897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}