Over 50% of overweight people have NAFLD “Qiuwei Pan, PhD, of Erasmus University Medical Center, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and colleagues scanned the Medline, Cochrane, Web of Science, Embase and Google Scholar databases from their launch until November 2020. They aimed to establish the global prevalence of MAFLD among adults with obesity and overweight in the global general population.
The team short-listed 116 studies encompassing 2,667,052 participants with overweight or obesity. Irrespective of the diagnostic technique used, the global MAFLD prevalence was 51%. The rate was the same when looking at ultrasound diagnosis, the most common method. Across all studies, the pooled prevalence of type 2 diabetes was 20%, and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome was 58%.”
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