A1C, LDL, HDL… the number of medical abbreviations you might see on your patient portal is enough to make you think your ...

Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) is an enzyme primarily found in your liver. An enzyme is a protein that helps speed up chemical reactions. ALT is involved in cellular energy production. ALT levels in ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Whenever you get bloodwork done, you probably don’t know what exactly you’re supposed to be looking at on the sheet (unless you’re a healthcare provider, that is). Glucose, sodium ...

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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 ...

Doctors can diagnose fatty liver disease, now called metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), using blood tests that measure serum liver enzyme levels. Elevated enzyme levels ...

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 ...

Having persistently high liver enzyme levels present in early adulthood is a strong predictor of type 2 diabetes risk. Learn ...