Having excess fat in your liver is associated with increased risk for a heart attack (The Lancet: Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Sept 20, 2021). A review of 36 studies on 5,802,226 middle-aged individuals with 99,668 cases of heart attacks, in a median follow-up period of 6.5 years, found that those with fatty liver disease had 1.5 times the incidence of heart attacks as the general population. The more fat in the liver, the greater the chances of a person suffering and dying from a heart attack. How Can You Tell If You Have a Fatty Liver? You can often tell if people have a fatty liver just by looking at them. A person with a big belly and small buttocks is at very high risk because those who store fat primarily in the belly are most likely to also store a large amount of fat in their liver. Many studies show …