Fatty liver disease – A multifaceted disease with more than one name?FATTY liverPERSONAL namesHEPATIC fibrosisDISEASESFatty liver disease is increasingly prevalent and constitutes a well-established morbidity and mortality risk. While abusive alcohol consumption has long been recognized as the major cause...
Harvard Medical School says up to 20% of Americans have a fatty liver. Most of the time Fatty Liver Disease goes undiagnosedbecause the symptoms mimic health issues many folks blame on exiting their teens and entering into adulthood. You know what we mean, when people say things like "I don...
When the name NAFLD was originally coined, it was intended to clearly differentiate the causes of this disease from alcohol-induced fatty liver disease. However, the name NAFLD perpetuates false assumptions among patients that fatty liver disease represents a diagnosis of exclusion or a prime example...
Drinker referred to individuals who consumed excessive amounts of alcohol, defined as more than 30 g of ethanol per day for men and 20 g of ethanol per day for women according to National Workshop on Fatty Liver and Alcoholic Liver Disease, Chinese Society of Hepatology, Chinese Medical ...
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic liver disease and represents the hepatic expression of several metabolic abnormalities of high epidemiologic relevance. Fat accumulation in the hepatocytes results in cellular fragility and risk of progression toward necroinflammation, i....
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Therefore, the name of this disease is not without problems (see Section 1d) and is under discussion.16,17 In many cases, the extra fat in the liver cells does not seem to be harmful or affect how well the liver works. This is called simple or isolated fatty liver, or non-alcoholic ...
Convincing epidemiological evidence substantiates a strong association between the presence and severity of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and the risk of chronic macrovascular (mainly cardiovascular disease) and microvascular (mainly chronic kidney disease) complications of diabetes mellitus NAFLD ...
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has emerged pandemically across the globe and particularly affects patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes. NAFLD is a complex systemic disease that is characterised by hepatic lipid accumulation, lipotoxicity, insulin resistance, gut dysbiosis and inflammation...
National workshop on fatty liver and alcoholic liver disease, Chinese society of hepatology, Chinese medical association; fatty liver disease expert committee, Chinese medical doctor association. Guidelines of prevention and treatment of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (2018, China). J Dig Dis. 2019...