
Your liver performs many important functions: It filters toxins, breaks down nutrients, and makes proteins, to name a few. Because it’s such an important organ, any damage to it will affect the rest of your body. Test your knowledge of the conditions that having MASLD and MASH can cause.
Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) raise your risk of having MASLD, but MASLD has no impact on your type 2 or CVD risk.
- True
- False
Type 2 diabetes has what effect on MASLD when you have both conditions?
- Masks MASLD symptoms
- Makes MASLD worse
- Can bring MASH on faster
- b and c
What complication do you need to watch for first when MASLD progresses to MASH?
- Kidney infections
- Fibrosis
- Heart attack