Prednisone is a corticosteroid your liver processes, so taking it can raise your risk of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), formerly nonalcoholic fatty liver disease ...

Taking prednisone can make the liver resistant to insulin, raising blood sugar levels and potentially leading to steroid-induced diabetes. Steroids may also worsen existing diabetes symptoms.

It’s recognized that daily prednisone promotes obesity, but a new preclinical study by Northwestern Medicine researchers has shown that once-weekly prednisone has very different results, promoting ...

Prednisone is a synthetic steroid hormone meant to work similarly to the naturally-occurring hormone cortisol. Most commonly used as an anti-inflammatory, it helps get your immune system to chill out ...