Posts Tagged ‘cirrhosis’

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Interrupting Liver Disease in Obesity

January 27, 2025 — A new paper this morning in Nature Medicine tells us that interrupting liver disease in obesity is possible with metabolic surgery. More specifically, in an observational study of patients with obesity and cirrhosis due to MASH, Ali Aminian and colleagues found a 72% lower risk of major complications from liver disease in patients who received […]

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Semaglutide Hits a Milestone in NASH

May 7, 2020 — Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis – NASH – is a more severe form of fatty liver disease that can lead to cirrhosis and liver cancer. Like other complications of obesity, people can develop NASH even if their BMI does not fall into the range of obesity. Just like obesity, the prevalence of NASH is growing and the treatment […]