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Can diabetes cause your liver enzyme to be elevated?

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Dr. Bradford Romans answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Not usually: There is a relationship with diabetes, elevated blood fats, and obesity.Fat can cause elevated liver tests.There also are many other causes of elevated liver tests.Your doctor can sort this out.

Answered 11/14/2012

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Yes: 1. Poor control causes abnormal lipid/cholesterol pattern 2. Diabetes associated with genetic abnormalities in cholesterol combination increase risk of fatty liver, hepatitis, even liver failure must treat diabetes and cholesterol agresssively and it can all be prevented.

Answered 2/7/2018

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