Posted on 06/05/2021 9:34:48 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
There are no approved drugs to treat nonalcoholic fatty liver disease but controlling blood sugar over time may help decrease the risk of liver scarring and disease progression.
According to a new study by Duke Health researchers, the average three-month blood glucose levels of patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease influenced their chance of having more severe scarring in the liver, which can lead to liver failure.
"It's becoming one of the leading causes of liver transplants and liver mortality," Alexopoulos said. "But we don't have any effective treatments that are FDA approved, so really what it comes down to is finding other things we can do to help lower the risk of fatty liver disease progressing to these really poor outcomes."
The team found that higher average blood glucose levels in the year leading up to a liver biopsy were associated with more severe swelling of liver cells. For every 1 percentage point increase in hemoglobin HbA1c (a measure of average glucose levels) in the year preceding biopsy, the chances for severe fibrosis rose by 15%.
Similarly, researchers also found that those with moderate glucose control over a period of five years, rather than good control, had more severe swelling of liver cells and a higher likelihood of having advanced liver scarring.
Alexopoulos says these findings are particularly significant for patients with diabetes because a significant portion of that patient population also has nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
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It’s a bad path in life to not watch your food intake versus your exercise levels.
Yep
Very true. But excess calories from fatty foods and even low fat high protein foods could easily be just as harmful. The more typical risk factors are “Being overweight. Having high blood fat levels, either triglycerides or LDL (“bad”) cholesterol, and having high blood pressure.
In my opinion most diets which restrict the consumption of good healthy foods to follow some type of over-simplified philosophy are not helpful. The largest percentage of people doing this are on "low carb" diets. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/nonalcoholic-fatty-liver-disease
Non alcoholic fatty liver disease can get you regardless of diet. I was diagnosed >15 years ago, when I was skinny and very conscious about diet. It is a bad pancreas, problem, just like high glucose. You might now do something to minimize impact, but its like a broken leg — bad luck.
Too much high fructose corn syrup in our diets
You might find help in some of what is said here:
https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/guides/fatty-liver-disease
By the way, nicotinamide riboside can help reverse liver cirrhosis.
Bkmk.
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