I have a fatty liver. There aren’t any symptoms, but the sonogram that I just had confirmed it. My doctor suspected it when a couple of my liver enzymes were too high in late September for the first time.
The question now is whether I have NASH. That’s what people usually call it, because it’s shorter than nonalcoholic steatohepatitis for which it stands.
While it isn’t normal to have fatty liver, about a quarter of Americans have it. By itself it probably causes little harm or...
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