Assessing the disease burden of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in the real world - big data and big numbers

BMC Med. 2019 Jul 4;17(1):123. doi: 10.1186/s12916-019-1357-y.

Authors

Jörn M Schattenberg¹, Mattias Ekstedt²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. joern.schattenberg@unimedizin-mainz.de.
² Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linkoping, Sweden.

No abstract available

Keywords: Advanced fibrosis; Awareness; Epidemiology; Fib-4; Hepatocellular carcinoma; NAFLD; NASH; Real-world data; Screening.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Adult
Big Data
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular*
Humans
Liver Cirrhosis*
Liver Neoplasms*
Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease*