⏿ The PanNASH Initiative is an interactive web-based platform presenting global NASH statistics to inform NASH control and research.
This study aimed to investigate the association between serum uric acid level and NAFLD in 583 patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) hospitalised in the Department of Hepatology, Yantai Qishan Hospital (China). In this study, multivariate regression analyses demonstrated that after adjusting for confounding factors...
In this editorial, P. Manka Essen University Hospital, Germany) and W. K. Syn (Medical University of South Carolina, USA) comment a study by Benhammou and colleagues, who evaluated the effects of NAFLD risk factors including obesity and diabetes on the long-term outcomes of patients with HCV treated with direct-acting antivirals...
This systematic review aims to investigate the potential multi-targeting effects of plant-derived extracts in experimental models of NAFLD. The authors, A. Ore et al., (Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo, and Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria) identified 9 articles fulfilling their inclusion criteria...
This study by C. C. Chen et al. (Department of Family Medicine, Asia University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan) investigated the association between NAFLD, diagnosed by ultrasonography, and coronary artery calcium score as detected by computed tomography in general populations in 545 patients...
In this review in Japanese, H. Yamamoto et al. (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan) outline the current issues in the diagnosis and treatment of NASH and introduce their research for the discovery of early diagnostic markers and the development of new therapeutic agents using liver organoid cultures derived from mouse models of NASH...
Prof. Manuel Romero-Gomez discusses the course of liver histology and its impact on mortality and morbidity in patients with NAFLD and NASH. He clarifies how fibrosis determines the prognosis of NAFLD and is the main therapeutic target. The importance of steatosis is also discussed both at the early phase and advanced phase. Finally he reviews the association with HCC and CV risks.