@article{HBSN27784,
author = {Stergios A. Polyzos and Jannis Kountouras and Antonis Goulas and Eleni Papakonstantinou and Paraskevi Papaioannidou},
title = {Dissociating nonalcoholic steatohepatitis from hepatocellular carcinoma in obesity},
journal = {Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition},
volume = {9},
number = {1},
year = {2019},
keywords = {},
abstract = {The prevalence of obesity has increased over the last decades reaching epidemic proportions: 39% of adults were overweight or obese in 2016 worldwide, according to World Health Association (https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight). Moreover, obesity is linked to metabolic syndrome (MetS) and related comorbidities, including nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), cardiovascular disease (CVD) and malignancies, thus resulting in higher mortality for obese individuals (1).},
issn = {2304-389X}, url = {https://hbsn.amegroups.org/article/view/27784}
}