Prevalence of Fatty Liver in Children and Adolescents

By J. Schwimmer, R. Deutsch, T. Kahen, J. Lavine, C. Stanley, Cynthia Behling. Pediatrics, 2006

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Subfields: Epidemiology, Hepatology

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In Epidemiology

1. Z. Younossi
2. M. Rinella
3. A. Sanyal
4. K. Cusi
5. E. Brunt
6. J. Lavine
7. S. Harrison
8. N. Chalasani

In Hepatology

1. Z. Younossi
2. M. Rinella
3. A. Sanyal
4. E. Brunt
5. K. Cusi
6. J. Clark
7. R. Loomba
8. Megan H. Bair-Merritt

Citations in the corpus

• The diagnosis and management of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: Practice guidance from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (2018, methodology): “A school-based study of obese children in Minnesota, California, Texas, and Louisiana, using abnormal serum ALT as a surrogate marker (>40 U/L), found that 23% of 17- to 18-year-olds had elevated unexplained ALT.(264) An autopsy study using the “gold standard” of liver histology examined 742 childre”
• Idiopathic Acute Liver Injury in Paediatric Outpatients: Incidence and Signal Detection in Two European Countries (2013, methodology): “A retrospective cohort study was conducted combining data from three longitudinal EHR databases in two European countries: Pedianet (from 2000 to 2008) and Health Search/ CSD Longitudinal Patient Database (HSD; from 2002 to 2008) in Italy and the Integrated Primary Care Information database (IPCI; f”
• THE NATURAL HISTORY OF NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE IN CHILDREN: A FOLLOW-UP STUDY FOR UP TO 20-YEARS (2009, background): “Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common cause of chronic liver disease in the pre-adolescent and adolescent age groups in most of the Western world. An autopsy study found that 9.6% of the American population aged 2–19 years have NAFLD, and this figure increased to 38% among tho”
• Non-invasive assessment and quantification of liver steatosis by ultrasound, computed tomography and magnetic resonance. (2009, background): “NAFLD is the most prevalent chronic hepatic disease in the Western countries affecting more than 30% of adults and 38% of obese children [1,2].”
• The role of fructose in the pathogenesis of NAFLD and the metabolic syndrome (2010, background): “versus 5% of normal weight children, 16% of overweight children, and 38% of children with obesity”