A multisociety Delphi consensus statement on new fatty liver disease nomenclature

The principal limitations of the terms NAFLD and NASH are the reliance on exclusionary confounder terms and the use of potentially stigmatising language. A new category, outside pure metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, termed metabolic and alcohol related/associated liver disease (MetALD), was selected to describe those with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, who consume greater amounts of alcohol per week (140-350 g/wk and 210-420 g/wk for females an...

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• 1 This study set out to determine if content experts and patient advocates were in favor of a change in nomenclature and/or definition.
• 2 A modified Delphi process was led by three large pan-national liver associations.
• 3 The consensus was defined a priori as a supermajority (67%) vote.

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