Active clinical trials for "Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease"

Blind, placebo-controlled study testing the hypothesis that oral dietary supplement rich with fucoxanthin will decrease biochemical clinical markers related to liver health.

Background: Metabolism refers to the many chemical pathways by which various compounds, including food, are processed and used in the body. People with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) have too much fat in their liver cells, but what causes it is unclear. One explanation is that people with NAFLD process food and metabolize it differently than people without NAFLD. Researchers want to compare how food is metabolized in people with and without NAFLD. Objective: To better understand how food intake influences the development and progression of NAFLD. Eligibility: People ages 18 and older with NAFLD or with a non-NAFLD metabolic syndrome Healthy volunteers ages 18 and older Design: Participants will be screened with medical history, surveys, physical exam, and blood tests. This will have ultrasound of the abdomen. This uses sound waves to image internal organs. Participants will stay at the Clinical Center for 2 nights. They will fast he first night. On the second day they will: Have their metabolism monitored in a metabolism research room for 24 hours Have a catheter inserted into an arm vein for several blood tests Drink an Ensure Plus for breakfast Have solid meals for lunch and dinner Have several urine tests. The final morning, they will: Have more blood tests. Have a DXA test to measure the fat in the body. They will lie on their backs for 15-25 minutes while an x-ray machine is positioned over areas of the body.

Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the hepatic manifestation of the metabolic syndrome, which is one of the major risk factors of coronary heart disease (CHD). CHD is the most important manifestation of atherosclerosis, because of its immense morbidity and mortality. Transient elastography (TE, Fibroscan®) including the currently developed controlled attenuation parameter (CAP) is a non-invasive method for evaluation of liver fibrosis and steatosis, which is already implemented in routine care of patients with NAFLD. Hypothesis: The use of TE with CAP as screening for NAFLD might be an easy tool for risk assessment for CHD. Methods: Patients scheduled for routine coronary angiography will be screened for manifestation of NAFLD by TE including CAP, conventional ultrasound, clinical and laboratory parameters. Patients will be stratified for the presence of CHD based on the angiography results and correlation analysis with liver fat content will be performed. NFALD screening will be validated in a subgroup by MR-based measurements.

Vascular inflammation is a key factor in both the pathogenesis and outcome of atherosclerosis. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) is a promising tool for identifying and quantifying vascular inflammation within atherosclerotic plaques. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is closely associated with many cardiometabolic risk factors. NAFLD can be detected by measuring liver fat accumulation using computed tomography (CT). Also epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) volume as determined by computed tomography (CT) is an independent marker of cardiovascular events in the general population. Therefore, the purpose of this investigators study is to compare the NAFLD severity and EAT volume with FDG uptake measured by PET/CT.

Background: - Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a common cause of abnormal liver tests. It is closely linked to health problems like obesity and diabetes. Researchers want to use a breath test to measure the metabolism of fatty acids and learn more about the causes of disease. They will compare the results between people who do and do not have NAFLD. They will also repeat the test in people with NAFLD after treatment to see improvement. Objectives: - To measure the metabolism of fatty acids and compare them between people who do and do not have NAFLD, and people with NAFLD before and after treatment. Eligibility: People age 21 and older with NAFLD Healthy volunteers non-NAFLD metabolic syndrome Design: Participants will be screened with medical history, physical exam, and fasting blood tests. Participants will fast overnight. Participants will sit in a comfortable chair. They will relax for 15 minutes. Then a narrow plastic tube will be put under their nostrils. It will be connected to a breath test device. Participants will drink palmitate or acetate in a heated liquid meal (Ensure). Palmitate is a fatty acid and acetate is a small molecule that is a building block for fatty acids. Both palmitate and acetate are natural compounds that are in our body and our food. Participants will sit for 6 hours. They can read, watch television, work on a computer, or other relaxed activity. The air they breathe out from their nose will be collected and analyzed. They may take a bathroom break after 3 hours. They may drink water after 3 hours. Participants will get a meal after the test. Participants will have another visit at least 1 week later. They will repeat the test with the other compound (acetate of palmitate). Participants may be asked to repeat a test to study the result of a change like weight loss or medicine. Thus, participation can last from 1 week to several years.

Investigating the impact of hepatic encephalopathy on default mode networks within the brain to provide more clues with understanding the physiology of consciousness and predicting the reversibility of comatose states.

Liver fibrosis is an important public health problem, with a substantial morbidity and mortality due to progression to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. All causes of chronic liver disease may lead to fibrosis. The traditional diagnostic approach requires a biopsy for assessing the severity of liver disease prior to therapy. However, liver biopsy has several limitations: cost, sampling error, and procedure-related morbidity and mortality. Considering the high prevalence of viral hepatitis and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition often associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes, there is an urgent need for noninvasive screening, diagnosis and monitoring strategies of chronic liver disease severity. Our team has the expertise to investigate ultrasound-based and magnetic resonance-based elastographic methods for the noninvasive staging of liver fibrosis. The primary objective of this cross-sectional study is to compare the sensitivity of elastographic methods for detecting histology-determined significant fibrosis. The secondary objectives are to compare the diagnostic accuracy of these elastographic methods and the influence of potential confounders (inflammation, steatosis and iron deposition) on their diagnostic accuracy.

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the ability of infrared spectroscopy to discriminate simple hepatic steatosis from NASH

This project investigates whether exposure to the World Trade Center Attack is a risk factor for liver injury.

The purpose of this study is to compare the severity of NAFLD in diabetic patients to that in non-diabetic patients.