#liver fibrosis

However, no association was found between drinking coffee and liver fat accumulation.

Inadequate access to healthy food was also associated with a higher chance of developing liver fibrosis.

An elevated liver stiffness measurement was also independently linked to older age and higher body mass, among other factors.

About a quarter of people taking a higher dose of Ocaliva saw an improvement in liver fibrosis.

The application is based on study results showing that up to 23% of treated patients saw an improvement in liver fibrosis.

Cure rates are high, but some young people already have advanced liver damage by the time they’re treated.

Study finds people who took daily aspirin had a lower risk of NASH and advanced liver scarring.

Among people with HIV who don’t have hepatitis C virus, various factors raise the risk of liver fibrosis and fatty liver disease.

Drinking even moderately is linked to a much higher risk of advanced liver fibrosis among those coinfected with hepatitis C and HIV.

There is no apparent association between the use of marijuana and the progression of liver fibrosis in those coinfected with hepatitis C virus...

Fibrosis in those coinfected with hepatitis C and HIV is comparable in severity to that found in people mono- infected with hep C who are near...

A 2008 study evaluated people with chronic hep C (HCV)—including some coinfected with HIV—who inhaled marijuana daily.