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 ...

Participatory medicine may improve liver disease prevention and public engagement. Learn how new models could reshape ...

Lancet Liver Commission, published in December, 2021, highlighted that liver disease was the second leading cause of years-of-working-life-lost in Europe (after ischaemic heart disease). The ...

Cirrhosis is the result of long-term liver injury where healthy tissue is replaced with scar tissue (fibrosis). Common causes of cirrhosis include alcohol use disorder (AUD), nonalcoholic fatty liver ...

Veterans with alcohol-associated liver disease had the highest cirrhosis incidence (0.66/100 person-years), exceeding MASLD (0.43) and MetALD (0.39), with parallel gradients in mortality. A VA ...

Recent advances in genetic testing, artificial intelligence, and cellular biology are transforming liver disease diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. Studies highlight how genomic insights, AI-driven ...

A healthy mouth is key to protecting the well-being of people battling liver disease, a new study reports. Veterans with early-stage cirrhosis had fewer health problems and complications—including a ...

Alcoholic cirrhosis is the severe, final stage of alcohol-associated liver disease, resulting from long-term heavy alcohol consumption. The disease involves permanent scarring of the liver, which ...

Fatty liver disease happens when too much fat builds up in the liver. Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) is a severe type of fatty liver disease where fat buildup causes liver ...