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Mar 1, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Jesse Berman |Yiqun Ma |Federica Nobile |Anne Marb

The link between air pollution exposure and increased mortality and morbidity is firmly supported by a broad evidence base. The 2015 Global Burden of Diseases Study, a 195-country investigation, found fine particulate matter (ie, particles with an aerodynamic diameter ≤2.5 μm [PM2.5]) to be the fifth ranking worldwide mortality risk factor, with an attributed 4.2 million premature deaths.1 Yet these impacts are not equally distributed.

Sep 24, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Massimo Stafoggia |Matteo Renzi |Federica Nobile

1 IntroductionNonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is characterized by hepatic steatosis without excessive alcohol use, and has become a major public health issue with the pandemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes worldwide (1). NAFLD represents a spectrum of progressive liver conditions, which can progress from simple steatosis to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, advanced fibrosis, cirrhosis, and even hepatocellular carcinoma (2).