Advance in treatment of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
XIAO Hai-ying
ZHENG Xue-lian
WANG An-jiang
Abstract：Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a chronic liver disease with complicated pathophysiology and mechanism.It could manifest as simple steatosis,steatohepatitis,liver fibrosis or cirrhosis,even liver cancer.It also increases the incidence of some extraheptic diseases,such as diabetes,colorectal cancer,chronic kidney disease,cardiovascular events and other endocrine disorders.There is no specific drug for NAFLD.Although weight loss is the basis of treatment for NAFLD,it is hard to maintain.The advancement in studies on the treatment of NAFLD was discussed in this review based on the studies on NAFLD treatment in recent years.
Keywords：nonalcoholic fatty liver diseasedrug
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 1069-1073 )