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Pawar SV, et al. Most overweight and obese Indian children have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Pawar SV, et al. The authors from Mumbai in India evaluated in their careful prospective school based cross sectional study a group of children in the age group from 11 to 15 years, measured their height and weight, and calculated the respective BMI. As expected, a liver biopsy as a gold standard to establish the diagnosis of NAFLD was not warranted, especially under the aspect of a clinical study and the risk of such invasive diagnostic procedure. Instead, the diagnosis of NAFLD was made by investigations used in daily clinical practice.

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