Global multi-societies endorsement of the MAFLD definition

• Mohamed Alboraie,
• Tawesak Tanwandee,
• Xiaoyuan Xu,
• Dafina Nikolova,
• Enrique Carrera Estupiñan,
• Hasmik Ghazinyan,
• Sameer Alawadhi,
• Ponsiano Ocama,
• Gulnara Aghayeva,
• Alejandro Piscoya,
• Taghreed Farahat,
• Pramendra Prasad,
• Cosmas Rinaldi Adithya Lesmana,
• Shashank R Joshi,
• Said Al-Busafi,
• Vladimir Milivojevic,
• Violet Kayamba,
• Yeong Yeh Lee,
• Shahinul Alam,
• Chengwei Tang,
• Wei-Fen Xie,
• Moutaz Derbala,
• Yuemin Nan,
• Dennis Ndububa,
• Hongting Zheng,
• Jiajun Zhao,
• Nawal Alkhalidi,
• Yahya Ghanem,
• Phunchai Charatcharoenwitthaya,
• Mamun Mahtab,
• Nagwa N. Hegazy,
• Edford Sinkala,
• Cecil Kwaku Dovia,
• Moussa Ali Mahamat,
• Mortada El-Shabrawi,
• Dao Viet Hang,
• Shlomo Vinker,
• Bilal Hotayt,
• Mohammed Tahiri,
• Pavel Bogomolov,
• Nawal Afredj,
• Inass Shaltout,
• Reda Elwakil,
• Abd Elkhalek Hamed,
• Lubna Kamani,
• Maheeba Abdulla,
• Constant Assi,
• Oidov Baatarkhuu,
• Munira Al Tarrah,
• Yousef Ajlouni,
• Bounena Abidine,
• Christopher Muñoz,
• Mohammad Ali,
• Emad Salama,
• Abdelaziz Elamin,
• Iqbal Ahmad Memon,
• Aram Mirijanyan,
• Sajjad Jamil,
• Alexander V. Nersesov,
• Nseabasi Ekanem,
• Waseem Hamoudi,
• Bisi Bright,
• Teresa Casanovas,
• Ewaoche Itodo,
• Esther A Torres,
• Maja Karin,
• Enver Zerem,
• Svetlana Turcan,
• Audrius Dulskas,
• Iulianna Lupasco,
• Alina Jucov,
• Christian Tzeuton,
• Roger Sombie,
• Kateryna Lapshyna,
• Andrriy Dorofeyev,
• Yaw A Awuku,
• Hilal Ünalmış Duda,
• Rijimra Ande,
• Nehal El Koofy,
• Naglaa Kamal,
• Ziyan Pan,
• Angela Peltec,
• Liang Qiao,
• Andry Lalaina Rinà Rakotozafindrabe,
• Ahmed Salama,
• Reham Soliman,
• Badre Wafaa,
• Marinela Debu,
• Eileen A Micah,
• Gamal Shiha,
• Mohammed Eslam,
• Yasser Fouad

Affiliations

Mohamed Alboraie

Department of Internal Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.; Egyptian Association for Research and Training in Hepato-Gastroenterology (EARTH); Corresponding author: Mohamed Alboraie, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo 11884, Egypt.

Tawesak Tanwandee

Division of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.; Liver Foundation of Thailand and Thai Association for the Study of the Liver

Xiaoyuan Xu

Department of Infectious Diseases, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China; Chinese Society of Hepatology

Dafina Nikolova

University clinic of Gastroenterohepatology, Faculty of Medicine, University ''Ss Cyril and Methodius'', Skopje, RN Macedonia.; Macedonian Society for Gastroenterohepatology.

Enrique Carrera Estupiñan

Division of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Hospital Eugenio Espejo, Quito, Ecuador.; Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Gastroenterología.

Hasmik Ghazinyan

Gastroenterology and Hepatology Service, Yerevan Medical Scientific Center, Yerevan, Armenia; Armenian Hepatological Association.

Sameer Alawadhi

Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Rashid Hospital, Dubai Health.; Emirates Gastroenterology and Hepatology Society

Ponsiano Ocama

School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda.; Uganda Gastroenterology Society (UGES).

Gulnara Aghayeva

Liver Diseases Department, Baku Health Center, Azerbaijan; Azerbaijan Gastroenterologists and Hepatologists Association.

Alejandro Piscoya

Hospital Guillermo Kaelin de la Fuente. Lima, Perú; Editor Principal, Revista de Gastroenterología del Perú.; Sociedad de Gastroenterologia del Peru.

Taghreed Farahat

Department of Public Health and Community Medicines, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt.; WONCA East Mediterranean.

Pramendra Prasad

Department of General Practice and Emergency Medicine, B.P.Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal.; World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA)

Cosmas Rinaldi Adithya Lesmana

Hepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo National General Hospital, Medical Faculty Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.; Indonesian Association for the Study of the Liver

Shashank R Joshi

Senior Endocrinologist, Department of Endocrinology, Joshi Clinic, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.; The International Diabetes Federation Southeast Asia

Said Al-Busafi

Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University.; Oman Gastroenterology Society

Vladimir Milivojevic

Department of Gastroenterology, Clinical Center of Serbia, University of Belgrade School of Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia.; Medcompass Alliance

Violet Kayamba

Department of Internal Medicine, Univeristy of Zambia, Zambia; Zambian association of Gastroenetrology and Nutrition

Yeong Yeh Lee

Department of Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia. GI & Motility Unit, Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia.; Malaysian Society of Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Shahinul Alam

Department of Hepatology. BSM Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.; Bangladesh Hepatology Society

Chengwei Tang

Department of Gastroenterology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China; Chinese Society of Gastroenterology

Wei-Fen Xie

Chinese Society of Gastroenterology; Department of Gastroenterology, Changzheng Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China.

Moutaz Derbala

Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.; Qatar Society of liver disease.

Yuemin Nan

Chinese Society of Hepatology; Department of Traditional and Western Medical Hepatology, Hebei Medical University Third Hospital, Shijiazhuang, China.

Dennis Ndububa

Department of Medicine, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria; Society for Gastroenterology & Hepatology in Nigeria (SOGHIN)

Hongting Zheng

Department of Endocrinology, Translational Research of Diabetes Key Laboratory of Chongqing Education Commission of China, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Army Medical University, Chongqing, China.; Chinese Society of Endocrinology

Jiajun Zhao

Chinese Society of Endocrinology; Department of Endocrinology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China; Shandong Key Laboratory of Endocrinology and Lipid Metabolism, Jinan, Shandong, China.

Nawal Alkhalidi

Gastroenterology & Hepatology Teaching Hospital, Medical City, Ministry of Health and Environment, Baghdad, Iraq; Iraqi society of gastroenterology

Yahya Ghanem

Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department, Sanaa university medical college, Yemen.; Yemeni society for gastroenterology and hepatology

Phunchai Charatcharoenwitthaya

Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand; Thai Association for the Study of the Liver (THASL)

Mamun Mahtab

Hepatology Unit, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Bangladesh; Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Bangladesh.

Nagwa N. Hegazy

Department of Public Health and Community Medicines, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt.; The Egyptian Family Medicine Association (EFMA)

Edford Sinkala

Department of Internal Medicine, Univeristy of Zambia, Zambia; Zambian association of Gastroenetrology and Nutrition

Cecil Kwaku Dovia

Cedaku Foundation of Ghana

Moussa Ali Mahamat

Department of Internal Medecine and Gastroenterology, Hôpital La Référence National de N'Djamena; Societé Tchadie des Maladies de l' Appareil Digestif (STMAD)

Mortada El-Shabrawi

Paediatric Hepatology Unit, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.; The International Society of Tropical Paediatrics (ISTP).

Dao Viet Hang

Internal Medicine Faculty, Hanoi Medical University, Endoscopy Centre, Hanoi Medical University Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam.; Vietnam Association for the Study of Liver diseases

Shlomo Vinker

Department of Family Medicine, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; WONCA Europe

Bilal Hotayt

Gastroenterology Department, Sahel General Hospital, Beirut P.O. Box 90-1603, Lebanon.; Lebanese Society of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

Mohammed Tahiri

Service de Gastro-entérologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Ibn Rochd, Casablanca, Maroc.; Moroccan society of digestive diseases

Pavel Bogomolov

Moscow Regional Research Clinical Institute, Moscow, Russian; The Russian Scientific Liver Society

Nawal Afredj

Hepatology Unit, Department of Medicine Mustapha Hospital, Algiers, Algeria.; Société Algérienne d'Hépato-Gastroentérologie et d'Endoscopie Digestive (SAHGEED)

Inass Shaltout

Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.; Arabic Association for the Study of Diabetes and Metabolism.

Reda Elwakil

Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Egypt.; The African Middle East association of Gastroenterology (AMAGE)

Abd Elkhalek Hamed

Arabic Association for the Study of Diabetes and Metabolism.; Department of Internal Medicine, Hepatology, and Diabetes, Egyptian Military Medical Academy, Cairo, Egypt.

Lubna Kamani

Department of Gastroenterology, Liaquat National Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.; Pakistan GI and Liver Disease Society (PGLDS)

Maheeba Abdulla

Department of Internal Medicine, Ibn Al Nafees Hospital, Manama 54533, Bahrain.; Bahrain Gastroenterology Interest Group

Constant Assi

Service d'Hépato-Gastroentérologie, CHU de Cocody, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire; Societé Ivoirienne de Gastro-Entérologie et d'Endoscopie Digestive (SIGEED)

Oidov Baatarkhuu

Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.; Mongolian Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.; Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Infectious diseases Department, Al-Amiri Hospital, Kuwait City, Kuwait.

Munira Al Tarrah

Gastronenterology and hepatology unit, Al Amiri hospital. Kuwait Gastroenterology Association; Sudanese society of pediatric hepatology.

Yousef Ajlouni

Department of Internal Medicine, Royal Medical Services, King Hussein Medical City, Amman, Jordan.; The Jordanian Society of Gastroenterology.

Bounena Abidine

Service de Gastro-entérologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Ibn Rochd, Casablanca, Maroc.; Moroccan society of digestive diseases

Christopher Muñoz

Yellow Warriors Society Philippines (YWSP), Manila, Philippines.

Mohammad Ali

Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic- Surgery & Liver transpalant unit, BIRDEM General Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.; National Liver Foundation of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Emad Salama

Pediatrics Department, Medical Research & Clinical Studies Institute, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt.; The Arabian International Society of Nutrition, Gastroenterology, and Infectious Diseases (AISNGID)

Abdelaziz Elamin

Pediatrics Department, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain.; Sudanese society of pediatric hepatology.

Iqbal Ahmad Memon

Sir Syed College of Medical Sciences for Girls, Karachi, Pakistan.; Pakistan Pediatric liver society; Asian Pan Pacific Societies of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition (APPSPGHAN).

Aram Mirijanyan

Gastroenterology and Hepatology Service, Yerevan Medical Scientific Center, Yerevan, Armenia; Armenian Hepatological Association.

Sajjad Jamil

Department of Gastroenterology, Liaquat National Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.; Pakistan GI and Liver Disease Society (PGLDS)

Alexander V. Nersesov

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, National Research Institute of Cardiology and Internal Diseases, Asfendiyarov National Medical University, Almaty 050000, Kazakhstan.; Kazakh Association for the Study of the Liver.

Nseabasi Ekanem

Founder/CEO Trinity Healthcare Foundation, Abuja, Nigeria.

Waseem Hamoudi

Internal Medicine Department, Al-Bashir Hospital, Amman, Jordan.; The Jordanian Society of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Bisi Bright

LiveWell Initiative, Yesuf Abiodun Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria.; Women in Hepatitis Africa, Womens Wellness Center for Hepatitis, Isale Ajoke, Iwaya-Makoko, Lagos State, Nigeria.

Teresa Casanovas

Liver Unit, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain.; Asociación Catalana de Pacientes Hepáticos (ASSCAT), Barcelona, Spain.

Ewaoche Itodo

Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Allied Health Science, College of Medicine and Health Science, Baze University, Abuja, Nigeria.; Medical Laboratory Science, Baze University, Abuja, Nigeria.

Esther A Torres

University of Puerto Rico, School of Medicine, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Asociación Puertorriqueña de Gastroenterología (Puerto Rican Gastroenterology Association)

Maja Karin

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Clinical Hospital Mostar, Bijeli Brijeg bb, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.; Association of Gastroenterologists and Hepatologists of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Enver Zerem

Department of Medical Sciences, the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.; Euroasian Gastroenterological Association; Gastroenterohepatology Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Svetlana Turcan

Department of Gastroenterology, “Nicolae Testemitanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Republic of Moldova.; Gastroenterology and Hepatology Society from Republic of Moldova

Audrius Dulskas

Institute of Clinical Medicine Faculty of Medicine Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.; Lithuanian society of oncologists

Iulianna Lupasco

Research Laboratory of Gastroenetrology, ''Nicolae Testemitanu'' State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova.; Medical Association of Gastroenterology And Hepatology “HEPATEG”

Alina Jucov

Department of Gastroenterology, State University of Medicine and Pharmacy''Nicolae Testimiteanu'' Chișinău, Republic of Moldova.; Romanian Association for the Study of the Liver

Christian Tzeuton

Faculty of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences of Douala, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon.; Société Camerounaise de Gastro-Entérologie

Roger Sombie

Département d'Hépato-gastroentérologie, CHU Yalgado Ouédraogo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.; Society of Hepatology-Gastroenterology and Digestive endoscopy (SOBUHGEED)

Kateryna Lapshyna

Department of internal medicine, Kharkiv national medical university, Ukraine.; Ukrainian Gastroenterological Association

Andrriy Dorofeyev

Ukrainian Gastroenterological Association; Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Shupic National Healthcare University of Ukraine Kyiv, Ukraine.

Yaw A Awuku

Department of Medicine, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana.; Hepatitis Society of Ghana.

Hilal Ünalmış Duda

HEPYAŞAM ASSOCIATION- TÜRKIYE

Rijimra Ande

Centre for Initiatives and Development (CFID) Taraba Nigeria

Nehal El Koofy

Pediatric department, Cairo University.; International society of tropical pediatrics

Naglaa Kamal

Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Hepatology, Kasralainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt.; Consultant Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Alhada Armed Forces Hospital, Saudi Arabia. Department of Pediatric Hepatology, Kasralainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt.; The International Society of Medical Specialties (ISMS)

Ziyan Pan

Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Angela Peltec

Discipline of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine State University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Nicolae Testemitanu” Educational program in digestive and metabolic disease. Republic of Moldova

Liang Qiao

Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.; The Association of Liver Patients Care (ALPC).

Andry Lalaina Rinà Rakotozafindrabe

Service de Gastroentérologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Befelatanana, Antananarivo, Madagascar.; Société Médico-Chirurgicale de Gastroentérologie de Madagascar

Ahmed Salama

Suez General Hospital.; The International Society of Medical Specialites

Reham Soliman

Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt.

Badre Wafaa

Ibn Rochd University Center. Societe Marocaine Des Maladies De L'appareil Digestif

Marinela Debu

Romanian Association for Patients With Liver Disease (APAH-RO)

Eileen A Micah

Department of Medicine, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana; Ghana Association for the Study of Liver and Digestive Diseases (GASLIDD)

Gamal Shiha

Hepatology and Gastroenterology Unit, Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt, Egyptian Liver Research Institute and Hospital (ELRIAH), Sherbin, El Mansoura, Egypt.; The Association of Liver Patients Care (ALPC).

Mohammed Eslam

Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Yasser Fouad

Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endemic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, Cairo, Egypt.; Egyptian MAFLD research group (EMRG).