Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) is an enzyme primarily found in your liver. An enzyme is a protein that helps speed up ...

Routine blood tests are increasingly detecting elevated liver enzymes, which may signal liver stress or damage. While mild ...

Liver enzymes are proteins in your liver that speed up chemical reactions. If your liver is damaged, blood tests will show abnormally high levels of these enzymes circulating in your bloodstream.

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 ...

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 ...

Rheumatoid arthritis can negatively affect the liver due to inflammation and autoimmune activity, as well as from the medications used to treat it, but many people with RA and liver involvement may ...

Cannabidiol use at 5 mg/kg/day in healthy adults resulted in liver enzyme levels exceeding three times the upper limit of normal in 5.6%, with no significant changes in endocrine hormone levels ...

There is a lack of data supporting the notion that antiviral treatments can benefit children with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) having high viremia and normal or mildly elevated serum alanine ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- An investigational dual therapy appeared to show antiviral activity in patients with chronic hepatitis D virus (HDV) infection, according to the phase II SOLSTICE trial. At week 24, the ...