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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is characterized by significant hepatic and peripheral insulin resistance, independent of obesity or glucose tolerance, effectively making it a feature of the metabolic syndrome.
If you have NAFLD, even if you are not overweight or have normal blood sugar, your body likely processes insulin poorly. This insulin resistance is a key driver of the liver condition and places you in the metabolic syndrome category, requiring attention to metabolic health beyond just weight management.
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We concluded that NAFLD, in the presence of normoglycemia and normal or moderately increased body weight, is characterized by clinical and laboratory data similar to those found in diabetes and obesity. NAFLD may be considered an additional feature of the metabolic syndrome, with specific hepatic insulin resistance.
Why this rating
Uses euglycemic clamp (gold standard) and liver biopsy, but is a cross-sectional observational study.
Source
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Giulio Marchesini et al. · Diabetes · 2001
DOI 10.2337/diabetes.50.8.1844
cohort · n=50Cited 2,580×
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