Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Liver Fibrosis, and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Adolescence: A Cross-Sectional Study of 1874 General Population Adolescents

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Authors

Debbie A. Lawlor · Medical Research Council

Mark Callaway · University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust

Corrie Macdonald‐Wallis · Medical Research Council

Emma L. Anderson · Medical Research Council

Abigail Fraser · Medical Research Council

Laura D Howe · MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit

Chris Day

Abstract

In healthy European adolescents, 2.5% have USS-defined NAFLD. Even after accounting for total body fat, those with NAFLD have more adverse levels of liver fibrosis and cardiometabolic risk factors.

Topics & Keywords

Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Birth, Development, and Health Diet, Metabolism, and Disease

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism

Volume 99, Issue 3, pp. E410-E417

DOI: 10.1210/jc.2013-3612

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