Medical Education

Delve into the latest in medical education resources for NASH. Explore new studies, teaching methodologies, and advancements shaping NASH education for healthcare professionals.

Adipose tissue insulin resistance and fibrosis stage in NASH

Authors: Kalavalapalli S, Leiva EG, Lomonaco R et al.
Published in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (April 2023)
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.
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Hepatic Macrophages in NAFLD: A Novel Therapeutic Target?

Authors: Vonderlin J, Chavakis T, Sieweke M et al.
Published in Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology (March 2023)
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) encompasses a spectrum of pathologies ranging from simple steatosis to steatohepatitis (NASH) and fibrosis.
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MASLD: A New Fatty Liver Disease Nomenclature?

Authors: Rinella ME, Lazarus JV, Ratziu V et al.
Published in Journal of Hepatology (June 2023)
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.
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Measuring NAFLD Models of Care: A New Strategic Framework?

Authors: Allen AM, Younossi ZM, Tsochatzis EA et al.
Published in Nature Reviews: Gastroenterology and Hepatology (June 2023)
Models of care (MoCs) establish comprehensive frameworks for the provision of healthcare services along a continuum of care.
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Dysregulations in Gut Microbiota Composition and Hepatic DNA Methylation in NAFLD: Is There a Link?

Authors: Stols-Gonçalves D, Mak AL, Madsen MS et al.
Published in Gut Microbes (June 2023)
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.
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Clinical outcome prediction in NAFLD: comparing non-invasive tools and liver histology

Authors: Mózes FE, Lee JA, Vali Y et al.
Published in The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology (June 2023)
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).
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Anti-inflammatory and Antifibrotic Targets for the Treatment of NASH: a Review

Authors: Tacke F, Puengel T, Loomba R et al
Published in J Hepatol (April 2023)
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.
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Biomarker Qualification for NAFLD and NASH: Insights from the LITMUS Consortium

Authors: Rasmussen DGK, Anstee QM, Torstenson R et al.
Published in Journal of Hepatology (April 2023)
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.
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From NAFLD to NASH: Determining Disease Progression and Regression Rates

Authors: Noureddin and Wong
Published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology (May 2023)
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.
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The Power of PPARs in NASH-associated Microvascular Dysfunction

Authors: Guixé-Muntet S, Biquard L, Szabo G et al.
Published in Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics (July 2022)
Hepatic microvascular dysfunction is central to the development and progression of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), the inflammatory subtype of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
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Phospholipid Depletion and NAFLD Pathophysiology: Findings from Lipidomics

Authors: Mocciaro G, Allison M, Jenkins B et al.
Published in Molecular Metabolism (April 2023)
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)).
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