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

Having persistently high liver enzyme levels present in early adulthood is a strong predictor of type 2 diabetes risk. Learn ...

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

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 ...

More than 11% of US adolescents had suspected metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), and 77.2% with elevated alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels met the criteria for ...

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 ...

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 ...