What monitoring do patients with simple fatty liver need
Patients with simple fatty liver usually do not require extensive tests. It is essential for these patients to make sure they do not develop diabetes, high cholesterol or blood pressure. If they maintain a healthy lifestyle and normal body weight, the fatty liver usually does not progress. Regular liver function tests in such patients are often not needed. Such patients however do have a risk of progressing to NASH if they develop additional risk factors such as increase in body weight and diabetes.