Open AccessNonalcoholic fatty liver disease is associated with worse intestinal complications in patients hospitalized for Clostridioides difficile infection
Author(s) -
Yi Jiang,
Salil Chowdhury,
Binghong Xu,
Mohamad Aghaie Meybodi,
Konstantinos Damiris,
Samanthika S. Devalaraju,
Nikolaos Pyrsopoulos
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
world journal of hepatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.913
H-Index - 55
ISSN - 1948-5182
DOI - 10.4254/wjh.v13.i11.1777
Subject(s) - medicine , clostridioides , nonalcoholic fatty liver disease , gastroenterology , fatty liver , confounding , retrospective cohort study , diarrhea , liver disease , cohort , disease
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become the leading cause of chronic liver disease with increasing prevalence worldwide. Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) remains the most common cause of nosocomial diarrhea in developed countries.