AASLD Practice Guidance on the clinical assessment and management of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

🤖 Plain-English Summary

PREAMBLE The study of NAFLD has intensified significantly, with more than 1400 publications since 2018, when the last American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Guidance document was published.1 This new AASLD Guidance document reflects many advances in the field pertinent to any practitioner caring for patients with NAFLD and emphasizes advances in noninvasive risk stratification and therapeutics. who may a or high risk of advanced disease on should risk the setting, or as are...

🔑 Key Findings

• A separate guideline focused on the management of patients with NAFLD in the context of diabetes has been written jointly by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology and AASLD.2 Given the significant growth in pediatric NAFLD, it will not be covered here to allow for a more robust discussion of the diagnosis and management of pediatric NAFLD in the upcoming AASLD Pediatric NAFLD Guidance.
• A “Guidance” differs from a “Guideline” in that it is not bound by the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment Development and Evaluation system.
• Thus, actionable statements rather than formal recommendations are provided herein.

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