I wanted to bring your attention to an important and often overlooked connection between liver disease and heart health, especially for those living with NAFLD.
In some cases, NAFLD can lead to something called preload reserve failure, a form of heart failure that isn’t easy to detect with standard heart tests. Invasive cardiopulmonary exercise testing (iCPET) can reveal how the liver disease obstructs blood returning to the heart, reducing cardiac output and causing heart failure symptoms.
This condition is still not widely recognized, but even early-stage NAFLD can disrupt the pressure in your liver and affect your heart’s ability to function under stress, particularly during exercise.
If you’ve been struggling with shortness of breath, unexplained fatigue, or symptoms that resemble heart failure, it could be time to look at your liver.
👉 Have you ever felt like something was wrong, even when your test results came back “normal”?
👉 Have you been diagnosed with NAFLD or NASH and experienced symptoms that affected your daily stamina or breathing?
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Hello everyone,
I wanted to bring your attention to an important and often overlooked connection between liver disease and heart health, especially for those living with NAFLD.
In some cases, NAFLD can lead to something called preload reserve failure, a form of heart failure that isn’t easy to detect with standard heart tests. Invasive cardiopulmonary exercise testing (iCPET) can reveal how the liver disease obstructs blood returning to the heart, reducing cardiac output and causing heart failure symptoms.
This condition is still not widely recognized, but even early-stage NAFLD can disrupt the pressure in your liver and affect your heart’s ability to function under stress, particularly during exercise.
If you’ve been struggling with shortness of breath, unexplained fatigue, or symptoms that resemble heart failure, it could be time to look at your liver.
👉 Have you ever felt like something was wrong, even when your test results came back “normal”?
👉 Have you been diagnosed with NAFLD or NASH and experienced symptoms that affected your daily stamina or breathing?
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Take care,
Somya from the Carenity team 🌼