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Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Obese Youth With Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes.
Frontiers in endocrinology - 1 Jan 2021
Scapaticci Serena, D'Adamo Ebe, Mohn Angelika, Chiarelli Francesco, Giannini Cosimo
Abstract excerpt
Currently, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) is the most prevalent form of chronic liver disease in children and adolescents worldwide. Simultaneously to the epidemic spreading of childhood obesity, the rate of affected young has dramatically increased in the last decades with an estimated prevalence of NAFLD of 3%-10% in pediatric subjects in the world. The continuous improvement in NAFLD knowledge has...
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