Medically reviewed by Jay N. Yepuri, MD Liver enzymes are proteins in your liver that speed up chemical reactions. If your liver is damaged, blood tests will show abnormally high levels of these ...

although persistently elevated levels of liver enzymes (alanine aminotransferase [ALT] and aspartate aminotransferase [AST]) can be used to indicate hepatocyte damage and the need for diagnostic ...

More than 1 in 10 US adolescents with elevated alanine aminotransferase levels meet the criteria for suspected MASLD, ...

Fatty liver disease, also known as Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD), is a silent but serious ...

By contrast, GLDH offers greater specificity to the liver, addressing this critical limitation. The team's initial studies showed that GLDH performed similarly to ALT for detecting liver injury ...