A Lancet Commission has redefined obesity by classifying it as either “clinical obesity,” a disease, or “preclinical,” a health risk factor, with the distinction based on factors beyond ...

Among the general US population, simple and affordable non-invasive liver fibrosis scoring systems may be able to identify individuals at risk for HF.

Hepatic fibrosis is the common result of injury to the liver from a variety of damaging mechanisms, and the accurate assessment of the degree of fibrosis is clinically important. For many years ...

Spatial transcriptomics was combined with single-nucleus RNA sequencing to annotate healthy and fibrotic human livers, improving spatial resolution of hepatocytes and receptor-ligand interactions ...

Our livers contain many different types of immune cells. New research by the team of Prof. Charlotte Scott (VIB-UGent Center ...

Cirrhosis is the severe scarring or fibrosis of the liver. It happens in the late stage of liver disease and other conditions that involve liver damage. The scarring that occurs with cirrhosis is ...

Our livers contain many different types of immune cells. New research by the team of Prof. Charlotte Scott (VIB-UGent Center ...

Pulmonary fibrosis is a rare, chronic disease that causes scarring in the lungs, making breathing difficult for people who suffer with it.

I spent my childhood and young adulthood being told I was “too young and healthy” to be dealing with the health issues I experienced. But as an adult, I was determined to find answers, and eventually, ...

CLINICALLY significant liver fibrosis is a key predictor of adverse outcomes in patients with steatotic liver diseases, such as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and alcohol-related liver ...