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GuidelineHepatology international2025

The Asian Pacific association for the study of the liver clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease.

Mohammed Eslam, Jian-Gao Fan, Ming-Lung Yu, Vincent Wai-Sun Wong, Ian Homer Cua, Chun-Jen Liu, Tawesak Tanwandee, Rino Gani, Wai-Kay Seto, Shahinul Alam and 49 more

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Guideline in Hepatology international, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 127 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

127 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Effect of Essential Phospholipids in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease: A Randomised Phase 4 Clinical Trial.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2026
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  8. Inhibition of Acetylation Activity of p300/CBP Ameliorates Hepatic Steatosis Through Downregulation of ACSL4.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2026
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  16. [Proportion and clinical characteristics of probable metabolic-associated fatty liver disease-related cirrhosis in cryptogenic cirrhosis].Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi = Zhonghua ganzangbing zazhi = Chinese journal of hepatology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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59 authors.

Mohammed EslamStorr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW, 2145, Australia. mohammed.eslam@sydney.edu.au.
Jian-Gao FanCenter for Fatty Liver, Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Key Lab of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Xin Hua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Ming-Lung YuHepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal MedicineCollege of Medicine and Center for Liquid Biopsy and Cohort ResearchFaculty of Internal Medicine and Hepatitis Research Center, School of Medicine, College of MedicineSchool of Medicine and Doctoral Program of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, College of Medicine and Center of Excellence for Metabolic Associated Fatty Liver Disease, Kaohsiung Medical University, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Vincent Wai-Sun WongMedical Data Analytics Centre, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, Institute of Digestive Disease, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Ian Homer CuaInstitute of Digestive and Liver Diseases, St. Luke's Medical Center, Global City, Philippines.
Chun-Jen LiuDivision of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal MedicineHepatitis Research CenterGraduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
Tawesak TanwandeeDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Rino GaniDepartment of Internal Medicine, Hepatobiliary Division, Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo National General Hospital, Universitas Indonesia, Pangeran Diponegoro Road No. 71St, Central Jakarta, 10430, Indonesia.
Wai-Kay SetoDepartment of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Liver Research, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Shahinul AlamDepartment of Hepatology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Shahbag, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Dan Yock YoungDepartment of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Saeed HamidDepartment of Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Ming-Hua ZhengMAFLD Research Center, Department of Hepatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Key Laboratory of Diagnosis and Treatment for The Development of Chronic Liver Disease in Zhejiang Province, Wenzhou, China.
Takumi KawaguchiDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan.
Wah-Kheong ChanGastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Diana PayawalDepartment of Medicine, Cardinal Santos Medical Center, Mandaluyong, Philippines.
Soek-Siam TanDepartment of Hepatology, Selayang Hospital, Batu Caves, Malaysia.
George Boon-Bee GohDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
Simone I StrasserAW Morrow Gastroenterology and Liver Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Hang Dao VietInternal Medicine Faculty, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Jia-Horng KaoGraduate Institute of Clinical MedicineDepartment of Internal MedicineHepatitis Research CenterDepartment of Medical Research, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, National Taiwan University Hospital, 1 Chang-Te Street, 10002, Taipei, Taiwan.
Won KimDivision of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul Metropolitan Government Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Seung Up KimDepartment of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Severance Hospital, 50-1, Yonsei-Ro, Seodaemun-Gu, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea.
Shelley E KeatingSchool of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.
Yusuf YilmazDepartment of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Rize, Turkey.
Lubna KamaniNational Medical Centre, Karachi, Pakistan.
Chia-Chi WangBuddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation and School of Medicine, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Tzu Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Yasser FouadDepartment of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endemic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, Cairo, Egypt.
Zaigham AbbasDepartment of Hepatogastroenterology, Dr.Ziauddin University Hospital, Clifton, Karachi, Pakistan.
Sombat TreeprasertsukDivision of Gastroenterology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Kessarin ThanapiromDivision of Gastroenterology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Mamun Al MahtabDepartment of Hepatology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Undram LkhagvaaDepartment of Health Policy, School of Public Health, Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Oidov BaatarkhuuDepartment of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Ashok Kumar ChoudhuryDepartment of Hepatology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, 110070, India.
Catherine A M StedmanUniversity of Otago, Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Abhijit ChowdhuryDepartment of Hepatology, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India.
A Kadir DokmeciDepartment of Medicine, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
Fu-Sheng WangSenior Department of Infectious Diseases, The Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Chinese PLA Medical School, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, 100039, China.
Han-Chieh LinDivision of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, No. 201, Section 2, Shipai RdNo. 155, Section 2, Linong St, Beitou District, Taipei City, 112, Taiwan.
Jee-Fu HuangHepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal MedicineCollege of Medicine and Center for Liquid Biopsy and Cohort ResearchFaculty of Internal Medicine and Hepatitis Research Center, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Jess HowellBurnet Institute, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.
Jidong JiaLiver Research Center, Beijing Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine On Liver Cirrhosis, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Clinical Research Center of Digestive Diseases, Beijing, China.
Mohamed AlboraieDepartment of Internal Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, 11884, Egypt.
Stuart K RobertsDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Central Clinical School, The Alfred, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Masato YonedaDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, 236-0004, Japan.
Hasmik GhazinianGastroenterology and Hepatology Department, Yerevan Medical Scientific Center, Yerevan, Armenia.
Aram MirijanyanGastroenterology and Hepatology Department, Yerevan Medical Scientific Center, Yerevan, Armenia.
Yuemin NanDepartment of Traditional and Western Medical Hepatology, Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China.
Cosmas Rinaldi Adithya LesmanaDepartment of Medicine, Medistra Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Leon A AdamsMedical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA, Australia.
Gamal ShihaHepatology and Gastroenterology Unit, Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Egyptian Liver Research Institute and Hospital (ELRIAH), Sherbin, El Mansoura, Egypt.
Manoj KumarDepartment of Hepatology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Necati ÖrmeciDepartment of Gastroenterohepatology, Istanbul Health and Technology University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Lai WeiHepatopancreatobiliary Center, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
George LauHumanity and Health Medical Group, Humanity and Health Clinical Trial Center, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Masao OmataDepartment of Gastroenterology, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan.
Shiv K SarinDepartment of Hepatology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India. shivsarin@gmail.com.
Jacob GeorgeStorr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW, 2145, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) affects over one-fourth of the global adult population and is the leading cause of liver disease worldwide. To address this, the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) has created clinical practice guidelines focused on MAFLD. The guidelines cover various aspects of the disease, such as its epidemiology, diagnosis, screening, assessment, and treatment. The guidelines aim to advance clinical practice, knowledge, and research on MAFLD, particularly in special groups. The guidelines are designed to advance clinical practice, to provide evidence-based recommendations to assist healthcare stakeholders in decision-making and to improve patient care and disease awareness. The guidelines take into account the burden of clinical management for the healthcare sector.

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