Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has emerged as the most prevalent liver disease worldwide, mainly because of the massive parallel global increase in obesity. Extensive public-health and political efforts will be needed in the near future to counteract this disturbing development.
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Diehl, A.M., Farpour-Lambert, N.J., Zhao, L. et al. Why we need to curb the emerging worldwide epidemic of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Nat Metab 1, 1027–1029 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-019-0140-x
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