NAFLD: Is There Anything New under the Sun?

Lonardo, Amedeo; Targher, Giovanni

doi:10.3390/ijms18091955

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NAFLD: Is There Anything New under the Sun?

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Amedeo Lonardo

^1,*

and

Giovanni Targher

^2,*

¹

Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria, Ospedale Civile di Baggiovara, 41125 Modena, Italy

²

Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University and Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata of Verona, 37126 Verona, Italy

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Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2017, 18(9), 1955; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms18091955

Submission received: 15 August 2017 / Revised: 10 September 2017 / Accepted: 10 September 2017 / Published: 12 September 2017

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Research 2016)

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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is an “umbrella” definition that encompasses a spectrum of histological liver changes ranging from simple steatosis to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) with/without fibrosis, “cryptogenic” cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), occurring in a dysmetabolic milieu, though in the absence of excessive alcohol consumption and other competing etiologies of chronic liver disease [1].[...]

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