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01-01-2022 | Fatty Liver | Concise Research Report
Prevalence of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Hepatic Fibrosis Among US Adults with Prediabetes and Diabetes, NHANES 2017–2018
Authors:
Donghee Kim, MD, PhD, George Cholankeril, MD, Rohit Loomba, MD, MHSc, Aijaz Ahmed, MD
Published in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Issue 1/2022
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Excerpt
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) encompasses simple steatosis, steatohepatitis, advanced fibrosis, and cirrhosis. Transient elastography has emerged as an accurate noninvasive diagnostic tool for assessing hepatic fibrosis and steatosis as compared to biopsy.
1, 2 Diabetes is a predictor of adverse clinical outcomes such as advanced hepatic fibrosis and mortality in patients with NAFLD.
3 Therefore, we characterize the current prevalence of NAFLD and hepatic fibrosis by controlled attenuation parameter (CAP)–enhanced transient elastography among adults with normal glucose tolerance, prediabetes, and diabetes in the USA. …