Patient's question:
A person next door was found to have fatty liver disease. His family has never had this condition, and they don't know how he got it. He usually drinks a bit of alcohol and eats some meat. He doesn't look particularly overweight, but no one knows what's going on. I also drink a bit of alcohol, and now I'm a bit worried.Doctor's answer:
Fatty liver is a common clinical diagnosis phenomenon, not a disease of reading. Clinical manifestations are mild in asymptomatic cases, while severe cases have aggressive conditions. Fatty liver refers to an inflammation caused by various reasons leading to excessive fat accumulation within liver cells. Fatty liver disease is a serious threat to human health, ranking as the third leading liver disease after viral hepatitis. Causes of fatty liver: long-term alcoholism can lead to fatty liver. Alcohol is harmful to the liver because after entering the body, it is mainly metabolized in the liver. The toxicity of alcohol to liver cells disrupts the compression and metabolic breakdown of fatty acids, leading to fat deposition within the liver and causing fatty liver.