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SUBMITTER: Machado MV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4177476 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Machado Mariana Verdelho MV Cortez-Pinto Helena H
World journal of gastroenterology 20140901 36
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most frequent cause of liver disease in the Western world. Furthermore, it is increasing worldwide, paralleling the obesity pandemic. Though highly frequent, only about one fifth of affected subjects are at risk of developing the progressive form of the disease, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis with fibrosis. Even in the latter, liver disease is slowly progressive, though, since it is so prevalent, it is already the third cause of liver transplantati ...[more]