Your liver could be in real trouble right now, without you even realising it. About one in five adults in the UK have what used to be known as ‘non-alcoholic fatty liver disease’ but is now called ‘metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease’, or MASLD.
The rebrand matters more than it sounds. Many people wrongly assume that liver disease is always caused by alcohol. If they aren’t knocking back the wine every night, they think their liver is fine. But it isn’t always the case.
Including the word ‘metabolic’ in the new name highlights that other factors, such as diet, can also cause
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