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SUBMITTER: Kahali B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4941959 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Seminars in liver disease 20151101 4
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is caused by hepatic steatosis, which can progress to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, fibrosis/cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma in the absence of excessive alcohol consumption. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease will become the number one cause of liver disease worldwide by 2020. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is correlated albeit imperfectly with obesity and other metabolic diseases such as diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and cardiovascular disease, but e ...[more]