A multisociety Delphi consensus statement on new fatty liver disease nomenclature

🤖 Plain-English Summary

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...

🔑 Key Findings

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

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