%0 Journal Article %T Dissociating nonalcoholic steatohepatitis from hepatocellular carcinoma in obesity %A Polyzos, Stergios A. %A Kountouras, Jannis %A Goulas, Antonis %A Papakonstantinou, Eleni %A Papaioannidou, Paraskevi %J Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition %D 2019 %B 2019 %9 %! Dissociating nonalcoholic steatohepatitis from hepatocellular carcinoma in obesity %K %X The prevalence of obesity has increased over the last decades reaching epidemic proportions: 39% of adults were overweight or obese in 2016 worldwide, according to World Health Association (https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight). Moreover, obesity is linked to metabolic syndrome (MetS) and related comorbidities, including nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), cardiovascular disease (CVD) and malignancies, thus resulting in higher mortality for obese individuals (1). %U https://hbsn.amegroups.org/article/view/27784 %V 9 %N 1 %P 73-76 %@ 2304-389X