Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and childhood obesity
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Clinical Manifestations and Diagnosis of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Background & Objective: Nonalcoholic fatty liver diseases (NAFLD) is the major cause of hepatocellular carcinoma and increases the risk of mortality. Understanding the trends of its clinical and biochemical changes is essential to identify patients with NAFLD that are at the greatest risk of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and cirrhosis in Iran. M...
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o besity is a worldwide epidemic with more than 1 billion overweight adults and at least 300 million obese patients [1]. According to recent statistics from the United States, 16.9% of children and adolescents aged 2–19 years were obese in 2009–2010 and 31.8% were either overweight or obese [2]. The rise in childhood obesity has been accompanied by an increase in pediatric liver diseases: 70%–8...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2019-318063