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SUBMITTER: Fujii H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7312931 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fujii Hideki H Kawada Norifumi N Japan Study Group Of Nafld Jsg-Nafld
International journal of molecular sciences 20200529 11
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) consists of the entire spectrum of fatty liver disease in patients without significant alcohol consumption, ranging from nonalcoholic fatty liver (NAFL) to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) to cirrhosis, with NASH recently shown as an important cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). There is a close relationship between insulin resistance (IR) and NAFLD, with a five-fold higher prevalence of NAFLD in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) compared to th ...[more]