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Editor in Chief: Elliot Tapper, M.D., Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
NAFLD/NASH was first described in a 1980 series of obese, non-alcoholic patients of the Mayo Clinic.[1] Since that seminal description, our understanding of NAFLD has progressed minimally. [2] The disease is most closely associated with the increasing obesity, insulin resistance, type two diabetes mellitus and hyperlipidemia [[[endemic]] to the developed world. Roughly half of all patients with NAFLD, however, do not meet criteria for metabolic syndrome. [3]
References
- ↑ Ludwig J, Viggiano TR, McGill DB, Oh BJ. Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: Mayo Clinic experiences with a hitherto unnamed disease. Mayo Clin Proc. 1980;55:434-438. PMID 7382552.
- ↑ Day, CP. Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH): where are we now and where are we going? Gut. 2002 May; 50(5): 585–588.
- ↑ Farrell GC, Larter CZ. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: from steatosis to cirrhosis. Hepatology. 2006;43:S99–S112.