The American Association for the Study of Liver Disease's annual scientific conference, The Liver Meeting 2023, kicks off on Friday, November 10 and runs until Tuesday, November 14th.
Educational sessions, abstracts, and posters on the natural history, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of steatotic liver disease delivered by the field's leading scientists will fill the 5 days and offer topics of interest to practitioners at all levels.
Underlying the proceedings will be the ongoing discussion and possibly deliberation over the updated nomenclature that replaces the term nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and nonalcoholic steatohepatis (NASH) with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH). The short slide show that follows highlights the background for the revised naming, elements of the new definitions for adults and children, and an initial diagnostic tool as a guide.
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“With the new nomenclature, the global liver community now has an affirmative name and diagnosis without using stigmatizing language. Yet not everyone agrees that this is an issue."
NAFLD --> MASLD: Original concerns driving the process of updated nomenclature
NAFLD --> MASLD: Factors impacting the name change and factors impacting the final definition.
NAFLD --> MASLD: Evolution of the new definition - an agreement was reached to err on the side of a term that maximized inclusiveness
NAFLD --> MASLD: Adult cardiometabolic criteria
NAFLD --> MASLD: Pediatric cardiometabolic criteria
NAFLD --> MASLD: The term MetALD was adopted to indicate the presence of MASLD with different levels of ETOH intake
NAFLD --> MASLD: A decision support tool was developed to guide a diagnosis of steatotic liver disease in the presence of cardiometabolic criteria and in the absence of those criteria
Source: No more NAFLD: The NAFLD nomenclature is changing. Power Point presentation. American Association for the Study of Liver Disease. Accessed November 1, 2023. https://www.aasld.org/sites/default/files/2023-10/AASLD%20Nomenclature%20Full%20Presentation%209.15.23%20FINAL.pptx
