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.

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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
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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
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What complication do you need to watch for first when MASLD progresses to MASH?

  • Kidney infections
  • Fibrosis
  • Heart attack

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SOURCE:
WebMD: “Video 3: Conditions Caused by MASLD and MASH.”

Cleveland Clinic: “Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD).”

Diabetes and Metabolism: “Steatotic liver disease, MASLD and risk of chronic kidney disease.”