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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: a spectrum of clinical and pathological severity.

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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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This article is published in Gastroenterology.The article was published on 1999-06-01. It has received 3167 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease & Fatty liver.

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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

TL;DR: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is associated with an increased risk of all-cause death, probably because of complications of insulin resistance such as vascular disease, as well as due to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, which occurs in a minority of patients.
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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 steatohepatitis: Mayo Clinic experiences with a hitherto unnamed disease.

TL;DR: Findings in 20 patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis of unknown cause found the patients were moderately obese, and many had obesity-associated diseases, such as diabetes mellitus and cholelithiasis.
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The natural history of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: A follow‐up study of forty‐two patients for up to 21 years

TL;DR: In individual patients, poorly controlled diabetes and rapid weight loss preceded the onset of steatohepatitis, and in the patients with extensive fibrosis the the liver disease evolved from one of active inflammation to one of inactive cirrhosis without fat or inflammation.
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