Erschienen in:
17.05.2022 | Editorial
MAFLD Versus NAFLD: Which Better Predicts the Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease?
verfasst von:
Andrew R. Scheinberg, Binu V. John
Erschienen in:
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
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Ausgabe 10/2022
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Excerpt
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a progressive chronic liver disease that if untreated may progress to cirrhosis and the development of its complications including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) [
1]. With the successful and widely-available treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection globally combined with an unfortunate booming obesity epidemic, NAFLD has emerged as the leading cause of end-stage liver disease. …