NASH covers a wide spectrum of disease severity and NAFLD is increasingly common worldwide ☂ and has become the principal cause of chronic liver disease.
Published in Journal of Hepatology (November 2023)
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is estimated to affect 38% of adults worldwide, a statistic which is expected to increase with the rise of type 2 diabetes and obesity.
Published in European Journal of Internal Medicine (November 2023)
The term metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) has recently been proposed as an alternative to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)’s exclusionary nomenclature.
Over the past few decades, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become a growing problem, alongside the increasing rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Cardiometabolic syndrome (CMS) involves a complex interplay of many issues, involving obesity, metabolic dysregulation, cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance and more. This condition extends to clinical implications including non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) as well as cancer and sleep apnoea.
Liver-related events contribute to a small proportion of mortality within the collective cohort of patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
Published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology (August 2023)
Despite ample preclinical evidence of numerous compounds’ efficacy and over 15 years of clinical trials, no pharmacotherapy has yet been approved to treat non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)
Published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings (September 2022)
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), the progressive form of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), has seen a consistent rise in prevalence in recent years owing to the global epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D)
Authors: Ramírez-Mejía MM, Xingshun Q, Abenavoli L et al
Published in Annals of Hepatology (July 2023)
In 2020, a group of international experts proposed that non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) be renamed to metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD).
The multinational liver societies introduce a non-stigmatizing and affirming nomenclature for "Fatty" liver diseases, striving for a global consensus to advance research, funding, and patient care.
Disease awareness, patient stratification, diagnosis, and access to care are all helped or hindered by a pathology’s nomenclature. Indeed, the language used to name and identify a disease has the power to create or intensify social stigma, marginalise subsets of a patient population, and perpetuate health inequalities.
The rising healthcare costs of NASH highlight the need for early intervention. Higher FIB-4 scores correlate with increased healthcare expenses. Early-stage intervention can reduce the burden on patients and the healthcare system.
Fatty liver disease can be caused by many different autosomal recessive diseases. One includes Wilson’s disease, a condition which leads to abnormal copper accumulation in multiple organs. Cirrhosis is common in up to 30% of cases, as well as steatosis and steatohepatitis. Cystic fibrosis is another example, where steatosis is common and liver disease occurs in 0.1-3.6% of patients. Furthermore, alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency and lysosomal acid lipase deficiency have been linked to steatosis accumulation, although have little research into their pathogenesis.
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