Complications, morbidity and mortality of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is an increasingly recognized public health problem, affecting up to a quarter of the world’s adult population. The burden of NAFLD is influenced by the epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and the prevalence of these conditions is not expected to decrease in the forthcoming decades...
PUBLISHED IN: Metabolism. 2020<

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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is an increasingly recognized public health problem, affecting up to a quarter of the world’s adult population. The burden of NAFLD is influenced by the epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and the prevalence of these conditions is not expected to decrease in the forthcoming decades.

Consequently, the burden of NAFLD-related liver complications (non-alcoholic steatohepatitis [NASH], cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma) and the need for life-saving liver transplantation are also expected to increase further in the near future. This narrative review provides an overview of the current literature on main complications, morbidity and mortality of this common and burdensome liver disease.

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Dr. Byrne

Dr. Byrne

Professor Byrne trained as a clinical scientist in the UK and the US, at Cardiff, Cambridge and Stanford Universities. He undertook a PhD studying liver lipid metabolism at Cambridge University. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University and then an MRC fellow at Cambridge University.

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