The Indiana University School of Medicine has announced gastroenterologist Naga Chalasani, MBBS, led a team of physicians to develop the first guidelines for diagnosis and management of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, according to a news release.
The guidelines were recently published simultaneously by the American Gastroenterological Association, the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the American College of Gastroenterology.
Dr. Chalasani is a professor of medicine and director of the division of gastroenterology and hepatology at the IU School of Medicine. He is also a member of IU Health Physicians.
"Although the condition has been recognized for 100 years, because of the increasing frequency of obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome, the prevalence and incidence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is rapidly becoming the most common cause of cirrhosis in the United States," Dr. Chalasani said, in the release.
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