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Vitamin E is recommended for patients with NASH and advanced fibrosis who do not have diabetes, and pioglitazone is recommended for patients with NASH and diabetes.
If you have NASH with advanced fibrosis and no diabetes, ask your doctor about Vitamin E. If you have NASH and diabetes, ask about Pioglitazone. These are guideline-recommended options to manage the disease.
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Once NASH is diagnosed, therapies recommended by the AASLD guidelines include vitamin E for patients with advanced fibrosis and without diabetes mellitus (DM) and pioglitazone, a thiazolidinedione that may be used in patients with NASH and diabetes.
Why this rating
Based on guideline recommendations derived from clinical trials.
Source
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Recent Guideline Updates
Yumi Ando et al. · Clinical Liver Disease · 2021
DOI 10.1002/cld.1045
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