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Prospective evaluation of a primary care referral pathway for patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

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It is shown that established blood tests for liver fibrosis can be used in primary care to stratify patients with fatty liver disease, leading to a reduction in unnecessary referrals by 80% and greatly improving the detection of cases of advanced fibrosis and cirrhosis.
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This article is published in Journal of Hepatology.The article was published on 2019-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 271 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Liver disease & Fatty liver.

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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

TL;DR: In this paper, a global prevalence of 25% and is a leading cause of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, and the leading causes of death in people with NAFLD are cardiovascular disease and extrahepatic malignancy.
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EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines on non-invasive tests for evaluation of liver disease severity and prognosis – 2021 update

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide the latest update to the EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines on the use of non-invasive tests for the evaluation of liver disease severity and prognosis.
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FibroScan-AST (FAST) score for the non-invasive identification of patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis with significant activity and fibrosis: a prospective derivation and global validation study.

TL;DR: The FAST score provides an efficient way to non-invasively identify patients at risk of progressive NASH for clinical trials or treatments when they become available, and thereby reduce unnecessary liver biopsy in patients unlikely to have significant disease.
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Advancing the global public health agenda for NAFLD: a consensus statement.

TL;DR: In this paper, a global Delphi study, a multidisciplinary group of experts developed consensus statements and recommendations, which a larger group of collaborators reviewed over three rounds until consensus was achieved.
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American Association of Clinical Endocrinology Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Primary Care and Endocrinology Clinical Settings: Co-Sponsored by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD).

TL;DR: A task force of medical experts developed evidence-based guideline recommendations based on a review of clinical evidence, expertise, and informal consensus, according to established American Association of Clinical Endocrinology protocol for guideline development as discussed by the authors .
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Fibrosis stage is the strongest predictor for disease-specific mortality in NAFLD after up to 33 years of follow-up.

TL;DR: NAFLD patients have increased risk of death, with a high risk ofdeath from cardiovascular disease and liver‐related disease, and the NAS was not able to predict overall mortality, whereas fibrosis stage predicted both overall and disease‐specific mortality.
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The Hawthorne Effect: a randomised, controlled trial

TL;DR: It is found that more intensive follow-up of individuals in a placebo-controlled clinical trial of Ginkgo biloba for treating mild-moderate dementia resulted in a better outcome than minimal follow- up, as measured by their cognitive functioning.
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