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NAFLD in Asia—as common and important as in the West

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, March 2013
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Title
NAFLD in Asia—as common and important as in the West
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Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, March 2013
DOI 10.1038/nrgastro.2013.34
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Geoffrey C. Farrell, Vincent Wai-Sun Wong, Shiv Chitturi

Abstract

NAFLD--regarded as a consequence of the modern sedentary, food-abundant lifestyle prevalent in the West--was recorded in Japan nearly 50 years ago and its changing epidemiology during the past three decades is well-documented. NAFLD, and its pathologically more severe form NASH, occur in genetically susceptible people who are over-nourished. Asian people are particularly susceptible, partly owing to body composition differences in fat and muscle. Community prevalence ranges between 20% (China), 27% (Hong Kong), and 15-45% (South Asia, South-East Asia, Korea, Japan and Taiwan). This Review presents emerging data on genetic polymorphisms that predispose Asian people to NAFLD, NASH and cirrhosis, and discusses the clinical and pathological outcomes of these disorders. NAFLD is unlikely to be less severe in Asians than in other populations, but the associated obesity and diabetes pandemics have occurred more recently in Asia than in Europe and the USA, and occur with reduced degrees of adiposity. Cases of cryptogenic cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma have also been attributed to NAFLD. Public health efforts to curb over-nutrition and insulin resistance are needed to prevent and/or reverse NAFLD, as well as its adverse health outcomes of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular events, cirrhosis and liver cancer.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Japan 2 <1%
United States 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Unknown 252 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 39 15%
Student > Master 34 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 33 13%
Student > Bachelor 30 12%
Student > Postgraduate 20 8%
Other 42 16%
Unknown 58 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 82 32%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 31 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 31 12%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 11 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 3%
Other 27 11%
Unknown 67 26%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 April 2022.
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