Metabolism · 2023
Fat, the liver and FBXW7
A single protein controls how the liver handles fat. When it fails, fat builds up and fatty liver disease follows.
A single protein controls how the liver handles fat. When it fails, fat builds up and fatty liver disease follows.

About one in three adults may have fat building up in their liver. Most feel nothing.

Resmetirom becomes the first approved treatment for liver inflammation and scarring caused by fat buildup.
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