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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus: the liver disease of our age?
World journal of gastroenterology - 21 Jul 2014
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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a chronic liver disease that might affect up to one-third of the adult population in industrialised countries. NAFLD incorporates histologically and clinically different non-alcoholic entities; fatty liver (NAFL, steatosis hepatis) and steatohepatitis (NASH-characterised by hepatocyte ballooning and lobular inflammation ± fibrosis) might progress to cirrhosis and...
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