Health-related quality of life worse in NAFLD patients compared with general population

LONDON — Patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease had worse health-related quality of life, regardless of fibrosis stage, compared with the general population, according to research presented at the International Liver Congress.“Health-related quality of life has been shown to be impaired in NAFLD patients and potentially associated with fibrosis severity, obesity or other metabolic comorbidities,” Margarita Papatheodoridi, MD, PhD, a post-doctoral research fellow at the University College of London’s Royal Free Hospital Institute for Liver and Digestive Health,Read More

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