Globally, three out of every 10 people may have a condition called metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). You may have heard people refer to MASLD as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease because it causes fat to accumulate in the liver. Being overweight is one of the risk factors for the disease, along with having type 2 diabetes. (Here's what happens to your body if you get fatty liver disease .)

As fat in the liver builds due to MASLD, the fat may precipitate the development of hepatitis, which is when the liver becomes inflamed. In time, MASLD can also lead to metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), a serious condition that causes scarring within the liver. A 2022 study in Hepatology showed that MASLD could reduce an individual's lifespan by

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