{"id":15343,"date":"2025-11-29T07:18:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T23:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=15343"},"modified":"2025-11-29T07:18:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T23:18:36","slug":"explainer-what-is-masld-most-common-chronic-liver-disease-affects-up-to-40-of-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=15343","title":{"rendered":"Explainer | What is MASLD? Most common chronic liver disease affects up to 40% of adults"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Nalini Lakhani, a Hong Kong secondary school teacher, had never heard of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) until she got her diagnosis.<\/p>\n

Few people have heard of it, even though it is the most common chronic liver disease worldwide.<\/p>\n

There is a 95 per cent overlap in the diagnostic criteria for the two conditions, says Dr Loey Mak Lung-yi, a Hong Kong-based specialist in gastroenterology and hepatology. Both involve having excessive fat in the liver, considered to be more than 5 per cent of the liver\u2019s weight.<\/p>\n

The shift in terminology from NAFLD to MASLD began in 2020 as doctors and experts gained a deeper understanding of the disease\u2019s key driver: metabolic dysfunction.<\/p>\n

That includes conditions such as obesity<\/span>, diabetes<\/span> and dyslipidemia, the latter of which is characterised by high levels of fats \u2013 or lipids, including cholesterol<\/span> and triglycerides \u2013 in the blood.<\/div>\n
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Nalini Lakhani had never heard of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease until she got her diagnosis. Photo: Nalini Lakhani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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