Heart rate variability and risk of NAFLD

Commentary

I. Y. CHoi et al. (Total Healthcare Centre, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea) investigated the association between heart rate variability and incident NAFLD in a cohort of 154,286 Korean adults.

For the authors, autonomic imbalance assessed by heart rate variability may help to identify individuals at a high risk of Hepatic steatosis and its progression and warrant further studies.