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Diagnosis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in children and adolescents: position paper of the ESPGHAN Hepatology Committee.
Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition - 1 May 2012
Vajro Pietro, Lenta Selvaggia, Socha Piotr, Dhawan Anil, McKiernan Patrick, Baumann Ulrich, Durmaz Ozlem, Lacaille Florence, McLin Valerie, Nobili Valerio
Abstract excerpt
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common cause of chronic liver disease in children and adolescents in the United States, and most probably also in the rest of the industrialized world.As the prevalence of NAFLD in childhood increases with the worldwide obesity epidemic, there is an urgent need for diagnostic standards that can be commonly used by pediatricians and hepatologists. To this end,...
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