When NAFLD can turn into liver cirrhosis?

ANSWER: Fatty liver disease is an increasing health problem, and a major cause of serious liver disease. Fatty liver often is divided into alcohol-related and non-alcohol-related. Alcoholic liver disease occurs in people who drink 14 or more standard drinks per week (a "standard drink" is 14 grams of alcohol -- about 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine or a mixed drink, but these can vary in alcohol content). read more

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is associated with a condition called Insulin resistance, which in turn associated with metabolic syndrome and diabetes . Obesity is the most common cause of Insulin resistance, is responsible for 25 % of all liver disease, in turn can cause cirrhosis of liver. read more

Alcoholic fatty liver is still wholly reversible, steatohepatitis only partly, cirrhosis is irreversible: from The Effect of Inflammatory Cytokines in Alcoholic Liver Disease The only way to do something about this was to stop drinking alcohol, in acute decompensated liver cirrhosis methylprednisolon for 30 days halved the mortality see Alcoholic liver disease: Natural history. read more