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A systematic review of follow-up biopsies reveals disease progression in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver

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A substantial proportion of patients with NAFL can progress towards well-defined NASH with bridging fibrosis, especially if metabolic risk factors deteriorate, and current monitoring practices of these patients should be revised.
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This article is published in Journal of Hepatology.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 417 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fatty liver & Steatohepatitis.

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Glycemic Control Predicts Severity of Hepatocyte Ballooning and Hepatic Fibrosis in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated whether degree of glycemic control in the years preceding liver biopsy predicts the histological severity of NASH and found that moderate control was significantly associated with increased severity of ballooned hepatocytes, but not lobular inflammation.
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Significance of Simple Steatosis: An Update on the Clinical and Molecular Evidence

TL;DR: An overview of the current evidence on the clinical significance of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is provided and the molecular basis for NAFL development and progression is discussed.
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Medical and Surgical Treatment Options for Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis

TL;DR: The currently available therapies for NASH including lifestyle, pharmacologic, and surgical options are discussed including diet, exercise, and pharmacotherapy.
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Natural History of Simple Steatosis or Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver.

TL;DR: Current concepts suggest the presence of a dynamic bidirectional cycling between NAFL and NASH with slow progression of fibrosis in majority of the patients, bringing into question the relevance of distinguishing NAFL from NASH.
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Insights into Nonalcoholic Fatty-Liver Disease Heterogeneity.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of existing data on the differential contribution of known factors to the pathogenesis and clinical expression of NAFLD, thus determining the different clinical subphenotypes observed in practice.
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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: a spectrum of clinical and pathological severity.

TL;DR: The outcome of cirrhosis and liver-related death is not uniform across the spectrum of nonalcoholic fatty liver, and poor outcomes are more frequent in patients in whom biopsies show ballooning degeneration and Mallory hyaline or fibrosis.
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The Natural History of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Population-Based Cohort Study

TL;DR: Mortality among community-diagnosed NAFLD patients is higher than the general population and is associated with older age, impaired fasting glucose, and cirrhosis, although the absolute risk is low.
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Nonalcoholic fatty liver, steatohepatitis, and the metabolic syndrome

TL;DR: The presence of multiple metabolic disorders is associated with a potentially progressive, severe liver disease and the increasing prevalence of obesity, coupled with diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and ultimately the metabolic syndrome puts a very large population at risk of forthcoming liver failure in the next decades.
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