"Cirrhosis can occur in the late stages of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, or MASLD, which happens when fat builds up in the liver and can lead to inflammation and scarring."
"MASLD... is the fastest-growing reason that people require liver transplants in the United States. It's possible to stop its progression or even reverse the damage, but patients often aren't diagnosed until it's too late to do so."
"It's largely asymptomatic, until it's not... and usually when it's symptomatic it's quite advanced," said Dr. Meena B. Bansal, chief of the division of liver diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.
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