A Literature Review on Fatty Liver Disease

In the structure of chronic liver diseases, the most common are non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), alcoholic liver disease (ALD), viral hepatitis B and C. Alcoholic disease has no geographical boundaries. All over the world people continue to drink alcohol, causing irreparable harm to their health. It is believed that drinking more than 80 g of ethanol per day (1 liter of wine, about 3.6 liters of beer and approximately 250 g of strong alcoholic beverages) can lead to clinically obvious liver disease in men. In women, this dose is 2-4 times less. However, the risk of developing alcoholic liver disease is associated with a much smaller dose, namely, with the consumption of 30 g of ethanol per day. In ALD, the most common manifestation of liver damage is fatty liver disease (FLD); a pathology caused by a violation of lipid metabolism in the hepatocyte, leading to the accumulation of fat in the liver.