Almeida NS, Rocha R, Cotrim HP, Daltro C. Anthropometric indicators of visceral adiposity as predictors of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A review. World J Hepatol 2018; 10(10): 695-701 [PMID: 30386462 DOI: 10.4254/wjh.v10.i10.695]
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Raquel Rocha, DSc, MSc, Adjunct Professor, Department of Sciences of Nutrition, School of Nutrition, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Avenida Araújo Pinho, 32, Salvador 40110-150, Bahia, Brazil. raquelrocha2@yahoo.com.br
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Gastroenterology & Hepatology
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Minireviews
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Naiade Silveira Almeida, Raquel Rocha, Carla Daltro, Department of Sciences of Nutrition, School of Nutrition, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador 40110-150, Bahia, Brazil
Helma Pinchemel Cotrim, Faculty of Medicine of Bahia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador 40110-150, Bahia, Brazil
Author contributions: All authors equally contributed to this paper with conception, literature review, drafting and critical revision, editing, and approval of the final version.
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Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Raquel Rocha, DSc, MSc, Adjunct Professor, Department of Sciences of Nutrition, School of Nutrition, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Avenida Araújo Pinho, 32, Salvador 40110-150, Bahia, Brazil. raquelrocha2@yahoo.com.br
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Received: March 30, 2018 Peer-review started: March 30, 2018 First decision: April 26, 2018 Revised: June 1, 2018 Accepted: June 8, 2018 Article in press: June 9, 2018 Published online: October 27, 2018 Processing time: 211 Days and 11.5 Hours
Core Tip
Core tip: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is one of the most common liver diseases worldwide and presents evolutional potential for more severe forms of the disease such as cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. The most effective treatment is based on changes in lifestyle, diet and exercise; however, this presents the challenge of having to be performed for a long time. The diagnosis, especially of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), requires invasive examination such as liver biopsy. The anthropometric clinical indicators of visceral obesity, of easy applicability and low cost, have been very promising in the prediction of NAFLD. Thus, future studies could be conducted to use them in the prediction of NASH, besides assisting in the therapeutic and preventive conduction NASH.
