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Multicenter Registry of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

NCT04540731 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 2000

Last updated 2020-09-07

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Summary

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most prevalent liver disease worldwide affecting as much as 25% of the world's population. The spectrum of NAFLD ranges from non-alcoholic fatty liver to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), the latter being associated with a progressive course towards fibrosis and a higher risk of developing cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Patients with type 2 diabetes are particularly at higher risk of developing fibrosis and advanced liver disease. Since NASH and its consequences will only occur in a minority of patients, it is of paramount importance to identify this population to offer them proper care.

It is well known that there is a lack of awareness about the potential consequences of NAFLD, not only in the general population but also in the medical community. Patients with NAFLD are frequently lost during follow up and, additionally, approach to these patients is sub-optimal and heterogeneous among physicians.

An attractive approach to applying best medical practices to patients with NAFLD is to generate a multicentre registry. Clinical registries comprise a set of systematic collected and stored data focused on a specific condition. The information stored in a registry provides relevant information about a disease and, through a process of error detection, ensures data quality and reliability. A NAFLD registry is an essential tool for providing relevant information such as epidemiological aspects of the disease, outcomes, and treatment effectiveness. As far as we concern, this would be the first registry of NAFLD in our region, a region where the disease behaves in a more aggressive way in comparison with other regions and hemispheres.

By generating this registry, we are confident that we will obtain objective information on the characteristic of patients with NAFLD in our region, not only of the disease characteristics but also of social determinants that might influence disease outcomes. By being a prospective study, it allows an adequate patient follow up.

Conditions

  • Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Interventions

OTHER

This is an observational study without intervention

This is an observational study without intervention

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
7 Years
Max Age
100 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-10-31
Primary Completion
2025-10-31
Completion
2025-10-31

Countries

  • Argentina

Study Locations

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