Which Treatment for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease?

S.      Moscatiello; R.      Marzocchi; N.      Villanova; E.      Bugianesi; G.      Marchesini

Abstract

Subjects with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease are at risk of progressive liver failure. Lifestyle changes including weight-loss strategies and increased physical activity remain the first-line approach, but a few pharmacological treatments have also been successfully tested. Several drugs improve biochemistry, only a few improve histology; in all cases, the results were not sustained after treatment stop. Pharmacological treatment is not so far indicated outside controlled clinical trials with histological outcomes.

Keywords: Orlistat, weight loss, Metformin, statins, Lipid peroxidation, diabetes

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