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From the metabolic syndrome to NAFLD or vice versa?
Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver - 1 May 2010
Vanni Ester, Bugianesi Elisabetta, Kotronen Anna, De Minicis Samuele, Yki-Järvinen Hannele, Svegliati-Baroni Gianluca
Abstract excerpt
The metabolic syndrome encompasses metabolic and cardiovascular risk factors which predict diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) better than any of its individual components. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) comprises a disease spectrum which includes variable degrees of simple steatosis (nonalcoholic fatty liver, NAFL), nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and cirrhosis. NAFLD is the hepatic...
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