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Unhealthy diets, sedentary lifestyles and obesity are pushing up rates of non-alcoholic fatty liver, but this dangerous silent condition is reversible. Luisa Metcalfe asks the experts what we need to know

The cutting-edge therapy is the first to treat cirrhosis, the scarring of liver tissue caused by heavy drinking, fatty diets and long-term infections from the viruses hepatitis B and C.

Jules Hutton was horrified when a routine ultrasound for tummy pain picked up a build-up of fat in her liver.

The lesser-known Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (or NALFD) is perhaps a hidden illness you have never come across before - and one in three of us are already developing it

Jules Hutton, 51, (pictured) was horrified when a routine ultrasound for tummy pain picked up a build-up of fat in her liver.

Liver disease is a huge global health problem, affecting an estimated 1.5 billion people and resulting in over two million deaths yearly.

While many of us link drinking with liver illness, there is one insidious condition that scientists believe is quickly becoming a silent epidemic.

AN international team including researchers from the University of Edinburgh has been awarded €750,000 (£690,000) to develop artificial intelligence (AI) diagnostic tools for liver disease. The project will look at ways of interpreting patient data to predict when non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is likely to progress into dangerous conditions such as cirrhosis of the liver and liver cancer. Professor Jonathan Fallowfield and Dr Tim Kendall, from Edinburgh’s Centre for Infla...

Share this article Share this article HistoIndex joins forces with a consortium of partners from NHS Health Boards, UK universities and technology companies for the development of a novel AI-based integrated diagnostic tool. There is currently no available method to accurately identify patients with NAFLD who are at a higher risk of developing a more progressive form of liver disease (non-alcoholic steatohepatitis or NASH) that can lead to cirrhosis, liver cancer and premature death. NASH is a...