{"id":13289,"date":"2023-06-22T11:11:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T18:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/?p=13289"},"modified":"2023-06-22T11:11:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T18:11:24","slug":"10-weight-reduction-may-lessen-nafld-progression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/10-weight-reduction-may-lessen-nafld-progression\/","title":{"rendered":"10% weight reduction may lessen NAFLD progression"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-432260 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-335245 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-571406 kc_text_block\">\n<p>A 10% reduction in body weight lessens the chance that non-alcoholic fatty liver disease will progress to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis or to early fibrosis, according to a review in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fr.smartbrief.com%2Fresp%2FqTohDjuQiAuUjSdwfEdcesfCRHDQ__%3B!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!ndBg1L2N2SbfXdxdFT2sY-oZQQMw4RKCUNe-Iipy8QO1J92xljRAuLHqDof9hNB2XVUNp6qIMLzT7JbJlFbrDfOHOWXR%24&amp;data=05%7C01%7C%7Ca6f23f9fd8934159b7f208db73460c6e%7Ce95f1b23abaf45ee821db7ab251ab3bf%7C0%7C0%7C638230516957035155%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=jl%2FMJCr7H%2FvfbUkOc5wKndlyqCay%2FHj%2FYwzYsWoRADA%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism<\/a>. Fatty liver disease has become a rapidly growing public health problem, and good communication and shared decision-making are key to helping patients lower weight and protect the liver, says Jay Shubrook, professor and metabolic specialist at Touro University California College of Osteopathic Medicine and co author of the review.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Full Story:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fr.smartbrief.com%2Fresp%2FqTohDjuQiAuUjSdkfEdcesfCPCVP%3Fformat%3Dmultipart__%3B!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!ndBg1L2N2SbfXdxdFT2sY-oZQQMw4RKCUNe-Iipy8QO1J92xljRAuLHqDof9hNB2XVUNp6qIMLzT7JbJlFbrDfw7ynyT%24&amp;data=05%7C01%7C%7Ca6f23f9fd8934159b7f208db73460c6e%7Ce95f1b23abaf45ee821db7ab251ab3bf%7C0%7C0%7C638230516957035155%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=DncEria0bhiTq0An%2BtEArJnH%2F5Beae0yY0WrrANnlCM%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Medscape (free registration)<\/a>\u00a0(6\/20)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-diabetes-related-news","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13290,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13289\/revisions\/13290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}