If your liver is damaged, blood tests will show abnormally high levels of these enzymes circulating in your bloodstream. Determining which enzyme is elevated—or if multiple enzymes are elevated ...

Normally, it is excreted from the body without cause for alarm, but at times it can build up in high levels, indicating an underlying health condition like non-alcoholic fatty liver disease ...

As red blood cells break down, bilirubin is produced as waste and processed in the liver. High levels of bilirubin can be a sign of a damaged liver. However, some types of inherited diseases may ...

When mothers eat a diet high in fat and sugars, their unborn babies can develop liver stress that continues into early life.

For patients with chronic viral hepatitis, clinicians instinctively rely on liver enzyme ... lower median HBV DNA level than did those with persistently or intermittently elevated serum ALT ...

High levels of ammonia kill liver cells by damaging the mitochondria that power the cells. But this can be prevented using an existing drug due to start clinical trials, finds a new study in mice.

Long-term adherence to the American Heart Association’s “Life’s Essential 8” lifestyle score significantly reduces the risk ...

More than 1 in 10 US adolescents with elevated alanine aminotransferase levels meet the criteria for suspected MASLD, ...

Indeed, we have previously shown fibrosis stage of 2 or higher in obese patients, although levels of liver enzymes mostly stayed in the reference ranges or were only slightly elevated. Secondly ...

When mothers eat a diet high in fat and sugars, their unborn babies can develop liver stress that continues into early life. A new study sheds light on changes to the fetus's bile acid, which affects ...