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(You may also see the term metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, or MASLD, in recent literature

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Furthermore, smoking induces vascular vasoconstriction, sinusoidal endothelial dysfunction, and smooth muscle proliferation, leading to hypoxia, capillarization of sinusoids, and further activation of HSCs [18]

There is also growing evidence that chronic ER stress through regulation of several pathways leading to oxidative stress, inflammation, perturbed hepatic lipid homeostasis, apoptosis, and autophagy, can also induce hepatic steatosis and its progression to NASH

Reducing Your Risk: Stopping Tobacco and Protecting Your Liver Cessation of chewing tobacco represents a modifiable risk factor that can benefit liver health alongside other organ systems

Esophageal cancer Caused by tobacco juices being swallowed Pancreatic cancer: Chewing tobacco increases the risk of this fast-growing cancer when used for a long time