In the medical field, terminology not only guides clinical understanding and patient communication but also impacts research, ...

Scientists at Michigan Medicine have made a significant breakthrough in treating nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a ...

Although gut microbiota and lipid metabolites have been suggested to be closely associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), the interactions between gut microbiota, ...

If you have obesity, losing even a little weight helps not only improve your overall health, but also prevent liver issues ...

Fat metabolism is a fascinating process and essential for human survival. It involves the digestion, absorption, transportation and utilization of lipids as a source of energy or as an energy reserve.

Hepatocytes are involved in many roles of the liver, including metabolism, detoxification, and protein synthesis. Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common form of liver cancer. It can begin as a ...

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD ... It is characterized by an excessive storage of fat in the liver cells, which can lead to an approximately 10% increase in liver weight with reduced ...

Although this study revealed the important effect of hypertension on liver fibrosis in patients with MASLD, there are still some limitations. First, this study was cross-sectional in design and could ...

“What we don’t know yet is how we can lower the risk for people with fatty muscles. For example, we don’t know how treatments such as new weight-loss therapies affect fat in the muscles ...

However, little is known about this type of body fat in humans, and its impact on health. This is the first study to comprehensively investigate the effects of fatty muscles on heart disease.

Of all the baseless fitness myths to have been peddled through ages of infomercials and influencers alike, the notion that you can “blast belly fat” is among the most audacious. Targeted fat ...