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SUBMITTER: Loomba R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2757471 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Loomba Rohit R Sirlin Claude B CB Schwimmer Jeffrey B JB Lavine Joel E JE
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 20091001 4
<h4>Unlabelled</h4>Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has emerged as the leading cause of chronic liver disease in children and adolescents in the United States. A two- to three-fold rise in the rates of obesity and overweight in children over the last two decades is probably responsible for the NAFLD epidemic. Emerging data suggest that children with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) progress to cirrhosis, which may ultimately increase liver-related mortality. More worrisome is the reco ...[more]