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Understanding the drivers of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is crucial to developing pharmacotherapies that effectively target it. Insulin resistance (IR), whose onset precipitates type 2 diabetes (T2D), is known to play a crucial role in the development of hepatic steatosis.
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.
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) encompasses a spectrum of pathologies ranging from simple steatosis to steatohepatitis (NASH) and fibrosis.
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.
Models of care (MoCs) establish comprehensive frameworks for the provision of healthcare services along a continuum of care.
Patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) exhibit alterations in their gut microbiota composition. Indeed, both nuclear and mitochondrial DNA methylation have been linked to the development of NAFLD and metabolic diseases, including obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Previous studies investigating non-invasive tools for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), its inflammatory subtype, have demonstrated the clear diagnostic efficacy of liver stiffness measurement by vibration-controlled transient elastography (LSM-VCTE).
Generally, NASH and fibrosis correlate with the development of cirrhosis and other negative clinical outcomes. Treatments often aim to target inflammation, fibrosis, cell injury or metabolic dysregulation.
Interventional trials for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), its inflammatory subtype, are often limited by patient heterogeneity and, hence, response variability.
The spectrum of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is divisible into three stages: 1) NAFL, 2) non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), NAFLD’s progressive and inflammatory subtype, and 3) NAFLD or NASH with fibrosis, whose stages range from F0-4.
Hepatic microvascular dysfunction is central to the development and progression of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), the inflammatory subtype of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
Along with its association with metabolic syndrome, NAFLD is closely linked with mixed dyslipidaemia (reduced high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and increased very low-density lipoprotein triglycerides (VLDL-TG)).