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ArticleTherapeutics and clinical risk management2007

Treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Keith G Tolman, Anthony S Dalpiaz

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Article in Therapeutics and clinical risk management, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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45citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 110 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Keith G TolmanDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. keith.tolman@hsc.utah.edu
Anthony S Dalpiaz
University of Utah · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, defined as the presence of macrovascular steatosis in the presence of less than 20 gm of alcohol ingestion per day, is the most common liver disease in the USA. It is most commonly associated with insulin resistance/type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity. It is manifested by steatosis, steatohepatitis, cirrhosis, and, rarely, hepatocellular carcinoma.Hepatic steatosis results from an imbalance between the uptake of fat and its oxidation and export. Insulin resistance, predisposing to lipolysis of peripheral fat with mobilization to and uptake of fatty acids by the liver, is the most consistent underlying pathogenic factor. It is not known why some patients progress to cirrhosis; however, the induction of CYP 2E1 with generation of reactive oxygen species appears to be important.Treatment is directed at weight loss plus pharmacologic therapy targeted toward insulin resistance or dyslipidemia. Bariatric surgery has proved effective. While no pharmacologic therapy has been approved, emerging data on thiazolidinediones have demonstrated improvement in both liver enzymes and histology. There are fewer, but promising data, with statins which have been shown to be hepatoprotective in other liver diseases. The initial enthusiasm for ursodeoxycholic acid has not been supported by histologic studies.

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fatty livertreatment

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PMID18516264
PMCPMC2387293
OpenAlexW197172104

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