
Current concepts of the pathogenesis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Author(s) -
Evgenia Pavlovna Kosobyan,
Кособян Евгения Павловна,
Olga Mikhailovna Smirnova,
Смирнова Ольга Михайловна
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
saharnyj diabet
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.155
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 2072-0378
pISSN - 2072-0351
DOI - 10.14341/2072-0351-6018
Subject(s) - fatty liver , medicine , metabolic syndrome , asymptomatic , disease , pathogenesis , obesity , pathological , diabetes mellitus , alcoholic liver disease , population , type 2 diabetes , gastroenterology , pathology , endocrinology , cirrhosis , environmental health
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) - common chronic liver disease, characterized by pathological accumulation of fat droplets, not associatedwith alcohol. NAFLD is often a component of other diseases such as metabolic syndrome, diabetes, obesity, and contributes to the prevalence of CVDamong the population.Asymptomatic disease, the difficulty of diagnosis, the lack of a unified concept of treatment NAFLD - topical issues that require more in-depth studyand worthy of attention a wide range of specialists.