Fatty Liver Disease Affects 1 in 4 Americans, Yet Remains Largely Undiagnosed

A silent epidemic moves through the bodies of roughly one in four Americans, accumulating damage in an organ that rarely speaks until it is already deeply harmed. Fatty liver disease — in both its alcohol-related and metabolic forms — progresses without pain or warning, and fewer than five percent of those who carry it know that they do. In the space between prevalence and awareness, millions face the possibility of cirrhosis and cancer without ever having been given the chance to intervene. It is a condition that asks us to reckon with what we cannot feel, and what we do not yet think to look