In patients with Met-ALD, would you still offer the same therapeutic/pharmacologic treatments (ex: GIP/GLP-1 agonists, Resmetirom, ex) for management of their disease as in a "pure" MASLD patient?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
We would need to differentiate which is the bigger driver force (alcohol vs metabolic dysfunction) to determine the likelihood that MASH treatment would be effective.
Alcohol use can be objectively quantified by phosphatidylethanol, which is a test commonly available in health systems with a liver ...