Having Diabetes Can Increase Your Risk of Liver Disease—Here's What to Do to Help
Odds are you know someone who has diabetes, a metabolic disorder that affects 37.3 million Americans, according to theAmerican Diabetes Association. Having diabetes increases your risk of developing other diseases, such as heart disease. One complication of diabetes that’s often overlooked, though, is metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), which was formerly known as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD. (For this article, we will refer to it as NAFLD, since that is what theADAuses in their most current Standards of Care in Diabetes....