The fatty liver, commonly known in the health field as hepatic steatosis is a benign liver disease generally characterized by the accumulation of fatty acids and triglycerides in liver cells.
The symptoms of fatty liver generally tend to be pain in the upper right abdomen, malaise, chronic fatigue and feeling of heaviness, especially after meals. Although it is also true that there are patients who have no symptoms, dangerous question to some extent given that the disease may progress silently to more serious stages.
Some years ago the fatty liver was associated with the consumption of alcohol in large quantities, although nowadays are becoming more specialists that relate the increase of people with this disease with high levels of obesity, cholesterol and triglycerides.