Commentary
For J. Zhou et al. (Wuhan University, China), NAFLD has become the most prevalent liver disorder in China but has not received sufficient attention. NAFLD-related advanced liver disease and its mortality along with its overall disease burden are expected to increase substantially.
In their meta-analysis, the authors summarise eight epidemiological features of NAFLD in China over the past two decades.
Importantly, this study underlines that there is a strong ethnic difference in body mass index (BMI) and genetic risk of NAFLD in China compared with the US population.
