Trial Parameters
Brief Summary
The European NAFLD Registry is a prospectively recruited, observational study supporting the study of the clinical phenotype, natural history, disease outcomes and pathophysiology of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis. The ultimate goals are to better understand the drivers of interpatient variation in disease pathophysiology and severity and to utilise this information to develop and validate biomarkers that, singly or in combination, enable detection and monitoring of disease progression and/or from NAFL through NASH to fibrosis and cirrhosis.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age ≥18 years. 2. Clinically suspected NAFLD based on any of: 1. Patient with historical liver biopsy providing histological evidence of NAFLD or, 2. Patient undergoing liver biopsy for suspected NAFLD with biochemical and/or radiological findings consistent with NAFLD or, 3. Patient with radiological evidence of cirrhosis (in absence of an alternative aetiology) plus presence of ≥2 features indicative of the 'metabolic syndrome': * Increased waist circumference by ethnically adjusted criteria (e.g. Europid male/female ≥94cm/80cm) or overweight/obese (BMI ≥25); * Raised fasting glucose ≥100 mg/dL \[5.6 mmol/L\], HbA1c ≥48mmol/mol (6.5%) or previously diagnosed insulin resistance/type 2 diabetes mellitus (or on treatment); * Dyslipidaemia (fasting TG level ≥150 mg/dL \[1.7 mmol/L\]; or fasting HDL \<40 mg/dL \[1.03 mmol/L\] in males and \<50 mg/dL \[1.29 mmol/L\] in females; or on treatment); * Hypertension (systolic BP ≥130 or diastolic BP ≥85 mmHg, or on treatme