A new definition for metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease: An international expert consensus statement

Affiliations

• 1 Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. Electronic address: mohammed.eslam@sydney.edu.au.
• 2 National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Birmingham, UK; Centre for Liver and Gastrointestinal Research, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, UK; Liver Unit, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK. Electronic address: p.n.newsome@bham.ac.uk.
• 3 Department of Hepatology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India.
• 4 Translational & Clinical Research Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom; Newcastle NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
• 5 Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University and Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata of Verona, Verona, Italy.
• 6 UCM Digestive Diseases, Virgen del Rocio University Hospital, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, CIBEREHD, University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain.
• 7 School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel; Department of Gastroenterology, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• 8 Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
• 9 University Clinic for Visceral Surgery and Medicine, Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland; Department of Biomedical Research, University of Bern, Switzerland.
• 10 Department of Medicine, University Medical Centre, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.
• 11 Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan.
• 12 Departamento de Gastroenterología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile and Centro de Envejecimiento y Regeneracion (CARE), Departamento de Biologia Celular y Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
• 13 Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, Università degli Studi di Milano, and Translational Medicine, Department of Transfusion Medicine and Hematology, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy.
• 14 Hepatology and Gastroenterology Unit, Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt.
• 15 Liver Center, Italian Liver Foundation, Trieste, Italy.
• 16 Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, and Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research, Helsinki, Finland.
• 17 Center for Fatty Liver, Department of Gastroenterology, Xin Hua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Lab of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Shanghai, China.
• 18 Department of Hepatology & Gastroenterology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
• 19 Department of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey; Institute of Gastroenterology, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.
• 20 Clínica Universitária de Gastrenterologia, Laboratório de Nutrição, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
• 21 Department of Gastroenterology, University of Sao Paulo, School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• 22 Department of Pathology, Physiology and Imaging, Beaujon Hospital Paris Diderot University, Paris, France.
• 23 Medical School, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Unit, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA, Australia.
• 24 NAFLD Research Center, Department of Hepatology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China; Institute of Hepatology, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China.
• 25 Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endemic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University Hospitals, Minya, Egypt.
• 26 Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• 27 Liver Research Unit, Medica Sur Clinic & Foundation and Faculty of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
• 28 Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
• 29 Université Paris VII, Inserm Umr 1149, Centre de Recherche Sur L'inflammation, Paris, France.
• 30 Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
• 31 Sorbonne Université, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière-, Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition (ICAN), Paris, France. Electronic address: vlad.ratziu@inserm.fr.
• 32 Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. Electronic address: jacob.george@sydney.edu.au.