Liver enzymes are proteins in your liver that speed up chemical reactions. If your liver is damaged, blood tests will show abnormally high levels of these enzymes circulating in your bloodstream.

Rheumatoid arthritis can negatively affect the liver due to inflammation and autoimmune activity, as well as from the medications used to treat it, but many people with RA and liver involvement may ...

More than 11% of US adolescents had suspected metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), and 77.2% with elevated alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels met the criteria for ...

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Like most chronic liver diseases, in NAFLD there is a long period during which an individual patient remains essentially asymptomatic. In asymptomatic individuals, the diagnosis is often made when a ...

There is a lack of data supporting the notion that antiviral treatments can benefit children with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) having high viremia and normal or mildly elevated serum alanine ...

Previous research links type 2 diabetes and metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). Children with uncontrolled type 1 diabetes (T1D) appear to face an increased risk of ...