Clinical Trial: The Nijmegen-Leiden-Amsterdam 2-tiered Care Path Study
Study Status: COMPLETED
Recruit Status: COMPLETED
Condition: Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
Official Title: A Care Path for the Detection of Advanced NAFLD-fibrosis: the Nijmegen-Leiden-Amsterdam 2-tiered Care Path Study - the NLA2 Study
Brief Summary:
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a liver disease, caused by storage of fat in the liver.The most-important risk-factors are being overweight, and disorders in sugar and cholesterol handling of the body.On average does around 30% of the population worldwide have any signs of fatty liver.Most people will not get severe complaints as a result of their fatty liver.But in some of them, the fat storage will lead to hepatitis.This causes damage to the liver which can eventually lead to scarring of the liver,…
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