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In Vitro Modeling of Fat Deposition in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease
Published on: July 19, 2024
Which treatment for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease?
S Moscatiello1, R Marzocchi, N Villanova
1Unit of Clinical Dietetics, "Alma Mater Studiorum" University of Bologna, Policlinico S. Orsola, Via Massarenti, 9, I-40138 Bologna, Italy.
Abstract:
Subjects with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease are at risk of progressive liver failure. Lifestyle changes including weight-loss strategies and increased physical activity remain the first-line approach, but a few pharmacological treatments have also been successfully tested. Several drugs improve biochemistry, only a few improve histology; in all cases, the results were not sustained after treatment stop. Pharmacological treatment is not so far indicated outside controlled clinical trials with histological outcomes.
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