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Nutrition could prevent or promote non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: an opportunity for intervention

Manuel Romero-Gómez and colleagues discuss how diet and modifiable factors can help prevent of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and the importance of engaging all society through awareness, education, and policy change

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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is characterised by fat accumulation in hepatocytes in people who drink little or no alcohol and is strongly related to metabolic disorders like obesity, type 2 diabetes, dyslipidaemia, and arterial hypertension.1 The global prevalence of NAFLD has increased over time, now reaching more than 30% of the general adult population, with an estimated annual growth of 0.7%.2 NAFLD is a complex, heterogeneous, and dynamic disease, and progression to fibrosis (scarring of the liver) occurs in around 10-15% of patients with NAFLD.3 NAFLD is one of the main risk factors for developing liver cancer, which represents the third highest cause of death by cancer in the latest Globocan report.4

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