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This study looked at liver fat in adults with diabetes or prediabetes using a special scan. It found that many had fat in their liver, and when some took a new diabetes medicine, their liver fat decreased.
This is the first study to use vibration-controlled transient elastography to assess liver fat in patients with diabetes in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries.
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ssociated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is common in patients with diabetes, but data from Gulf Cooperation Council countries using vibration-controlled tra
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This study suggests that vibration-controlled transient elastography could be useful for non-invasive liver assessment in patients with diabetes or prediabetes, and that incretin therapy may reduce liver fat in these patients.
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