Fatty Liver Causes This Fatal (Non-Liver) Disease

It often affects overweight or obese people, but that doesn’t mean you’re immune to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) will very likely lead to a liver failure. That’s obvious.

But there is another condition that at first glance has nothing to do with NAFLD. And this condition might be even more dangerous.

And a new study published in The Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology reveals that those suffering NAFLD are 88% more likely to be hit by this surprising disease.

Scientists collected medical data of 111,492 adult patients who visited the Samsung Medical Center in Korea between 2003 and 2013. They were all above 40 years old and those with previous heart attacks, records of cardiovascular disease, a history of liver cirrhosis, previous hepatitis B or C, cancer, or high alcohol intake were excluded from the study.

All the patient’s necessary information was collected, including health history, demographic characteristics, smoking status, alcohol consumption, medical characteristics and medication use.

Every patient was given an abdominal ultrasound on the first visit and during follow-ups to check liver composition.

It was found that people with NAFLD were more likely to suffer heart attacks during the follow-up period.

Compared to those without NAFLD, those with low NAFLD had an increased risk of 70 percent and those with intermediate-to-high NAFLD an increased risk of 88 percent.

This means that you don’t have to have severe NAFLD for your heart attack risk to be raised. Moderate cases are risky too.

Other studies revealed that NAFLD sufferers fell into higher risk categories when it comes to strokes, clogged large arteries, and cardiovascular related death.

The good news is that NAFLD can be completely reversed by tackling the underlying cause of it (which is probably different from what you have been told). I’ll explain all that here…