Zhonglin Li, Rui Gong, Huikuan Chu, Junchao Zeng, Can Chen, Sanping Xu, Lilin Hu, Wenkang Gao, Li Zhang, Hang Yuan, Zilu Cheng, Cheng Wang, Meng Du, Qingjing Zhu, Li Zhang, Lin Rong, Xiaoqing Hu, Ling Yang
BACKGROUND: Metabolic associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) is a novel concept proposed in 2020, which is more practical for identifying patients with fatty liver disease with high risk of disease progression. Fatty liver is a driver for extrahepatic complications, particularly cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Although the risk of CVD in MAFLD could be predicted by carotid ultrasound test, a very early stage prediction method before the formation of pathological damage is still lacking...
March 22, 2024: Atherosclerosis