A new definition for metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease: An international expert consensus statement

• Main Authors: Eslam, Mohammed, Newsome, Philip N., Sarin, Shiv K., Anstee, Quentin M., Targher, Giovanni, Romero-Gomez, Manuel, Zelber-Sagi, Shira, Wong, Vincent Wai-Sun, Dufour, Jean-Francois, Schattenberg, Joern M., Kawaguchi, Takumi, Arrese, Marco, Valenti, Luca, Shiha, Gamal, Tiribelli, Claudio, Yki-Jarvinen, Hannele, Fan, Jian-Gao, Gronbaek, Henning, Yilmaz, Yusuf, Cortez-Pinto, Helena, Oliveira, Claudia P., Bedossa, Pierre, Adams, Leon A., Zheng, Ming-Hua, Fouad, Yasser, Chan, Wah-Kheong, Mendez-Sanchez, Nahum, Ahn, Sang Hoon, Castera, Laurent, Bugianesi, Elisabetta, Ratziu, Vlad, George, Jacob
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier B.V. 2020
• Subjects: R Medicine (General); RC Internal medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/36571/
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

The exclusion of other chronic liver diseases including ``excess'' alcohol intake has until now been necessary to establish a diagnosis of metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD). However, given our current understanding of the pathogenesis of MAFLD and its rising prev...