Highlights from The Liver Meeting 2025


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Digital Wellness Intervention Improved Mental Health and Quality of Life for Patients with Chronic Liver Disease

Individuals living with chronic liver disease experience fatigue, anxiety, and depression, which diminish their quality of life and increase their risk for frailty. However, mental health issues are often underrecognized and undertreated in this population, partly due to the challenges involved in prescribing pharmacotherapy to individuals with liver dysfunction. 

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Evolving Goals Reshape the Treatment of Primary Biliary Cholangitis

While the management of primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) has been redefined by therapies that can achieve meaningful improvements in biomarkers of disease progression, personalized care and aspirational goals may take the management of this chronic liver disease to a whole new level. At The Liver Meeting 2025 in Washington, D.C., experts discussed a shift in the paradigm of PBC management marked not only by the evolution of pharmacologic therapies but also by new, patient-centered approaches to treatment.  

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Individuals with Primary Biliary Cholangitis Benefit from Statin Therapy

Hyperlipidemia complicates the course of primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) by increasing the burden of cardiovascular and metabolic disease, which may be underrecognized in this population, according to a retrospective analysis presented at The Liver Meeting 2025, in Washington, D.C. 

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Seladelpar Treatment Improved Overall Health and Quality of Life in Patients with Primary Biliary Cholangitis

An in-depth look at data from the phase 3 RESPONSE trial, presented at The Liver Meeting 2025, in Washington, D.C., showed that patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) treated with seladelpar achieved meaningful improvements in quality of life and reductions in PBC symptoms over 12 months of treatment. 

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Noninvasive Algorithm May Accurately Predict the Risk of Portal Hypertension Related to Primary Biliary Cholangitis

An algorithm combining liver stiffness and spleen stiffness values can improve risk stratification by predicting liver decompensation in patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), according to a multicenter study presented at The Liver Meeting 2025 in Washington, D.C., hosted by the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease. 

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Risk of Fractures Associated with Primary Biliary Cholangitis Does Not Decrease with Bisphosphonate Therapy

A series of analyses presented at The Liver Meeting 2025, in Washington, D.C., showed that primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) increases the risk of bone fractures in women older than 65 years, independently of the postmenopausal status, and revealed that this risk is not mitigated by guideline-directed therapy for osteoporosis. 

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Seladelpar Passes First Real-World Test in the Treatment of Primary Biliary Cholangitis

Real-world data presented at The Liver Meeting 2025 in Washington, D.C. suggest that seladelpar is a safe and effective second-line therapy for patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) who were previously treated with obeticholic acid. 

November 11, 2025

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Noninvasive Biomarkers Show Promise for Risk Stratification in Primary Biliary Cholangitis

Risk stratification scores based on noninvasive laboratory tests offer a safe, cost-effective method for predicting disease progression and the risk for complications in patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), according to a series of studies presented at The Liver Meeting 2025 in Washington, D.C. 

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The Influence of Cholestatic Liver Disease on Pregnancy Outcomes Is Understudied

Real-world findings from a large national cohort, presented at The Liver Meeting 2025, in Washington, D.C., showed that clinicians could benefit from targeted recommendations that can better guide the management and counseling of women with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) during pregnancy. 

November 13, 2025

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Seladelpar Demonstrated Long-Term Efficacy and Safety in the Treatment of Primary Biliary Cholangitis

The latest data from the open-label ASSURE clinical trial, presented at The Liver Meeting 2025, in Washington, D.C., showed that patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) maintained improvements in biochemical markers of cholestasis over 3 years of treatment with seladelpar, which was generally well tolerated. 

November 13, 2025

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