People with compromised liver function may be able to reduce their risk of liver cancer or slow its progression with a simple dietary change: eating less protein. A Rutgers-led study in Science ...

Scientists have discovered that blocking a key cellular enzyme thought to protect against fatty liver disease may instead increase the risk of chronic liver damage and cancer as we age. In a major new ...

How should I manage a 62-year-old Hispanic man who has hyperlipidemia and abnormal liver enzymes? The patient’s most recent lab studies showed total cholesterol 326 mg/dL, LDL 233 mg/dL, triglycerides ...

Blocking Caspase-2 (the liver’s guardian enzyme) to treat fatty liver may produce chronic damage and multiply the risk of ...

What Happens When Your Liver Enzymes Are Too High? originally appeared on Parade. When it comes to most body parts, if there’s a problem, you know it. If a bone breaks, you feel it. If your gut ...

For patients with chronic viral hepatitis, clinicians instinctively rely on liver enzyme measurements to estimate disease activity and assess need for liver biopsy or antiviral treatment. Although ...

About a year and a half after marrying the love of his life, Leah, in 2009, Fred Boothman learned of his elevated liver ...

Some high-dose detox “natural” supplements, such as green tea extract, can lead to liver inflammation, reflected in elevated ...

Know the early signs and causes of pediatric fatty liver disease and how parents can prevent long-term liver damage in ...