Exercise improves surrogate measures of liver histological response in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease.
Daniel J CuthbertsonShelley Elizabeth KeatingChristopher J A PughPatrick J OwenGraham J KempA Margot UmplebyNathaniel G GeyerVernon M ChinchilliJonathan G StinePublished in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2024)
Exercise training led to clinically meaningful improvements in surrogate serum- and imaging-based measures of liver histological change, without clinically meaningful body weight reduction. These data reinforce the weight-neutral benefit of exercise training and suggest that aerobic training may improve liver fibrosis in patients with MASLD.