Research
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Systematic screening for NAFLD is not recommended by the AASLD even in high-risk populations due to lack of effective drug treatments, cost-effectiveness concerns, and unclear long-term benefits.
In the US, you likely won't be systematically screened for NAFLD even if you have diabetes, because there are no approved drugs for it yet. Focus on managing your metabolic health instead.
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AASLD currently recommends against screening even in high-risk populations because of the lack of effective drug treatment, cost-effectiveness analysis, and unclear long-term benefits to screening.
Why this rating
Based on guideline consensus and cost-effectiveness analysis references.
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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Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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