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Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes 2024; 132(03): 136-141
DOI: 10.1055/a-2166-6824
German Diabetes Associaton: Clinical Practice Guidelines

Diabetes and Fatty Liver

Norbert Stefan
1   German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Germany
2   Heisenberg Professorship and Chair of Clinical Experimental Diabetology, Department of Internal Medicine IV, Endocrinology, Diabetology, and Nephrology, University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany
3   Department of Pathophysiology of Prediabetes of the Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases (IDM) of Helmholtz Centre Munich at the University of Tübingen, Germany
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Michael Roden
1   German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Germany
4   Division for Endocrinology and Diabetology, Medical Faculty of the Heinrich Heine University and University Hospital, Düsseldorf, Germany
5   Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center (DDZ), Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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NOTICE OF UPDATE

The DDG clinical practice guidelines are updated regularly during the second half of the calendar year. Please ensure that you read and cite the respective current version.

Updates To Content And Different Recommendations Compared To The Previous Year's Version

Change 1: For the screening of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, reference was made to the updated S2k guideline on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease of the German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases/Deutschen Gesellschaft für Gastroenterologie, Verdauungs- und Stoffwechselkrankheiten (DGVS) [7], the European algorithm of the EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines [8], and a recently proposed procedure for general practitioners and diabetologists [9]

Reason: New recommendation for structured screening for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease for general practitioners and diabetologists

Supporting reference: [7] [8] [9] [10]

Change 2: New results from pharmacological phase 2 therapy studies are given.

Reason: This provided important new insights into the possible future pharmacological therapy of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Supporting reference: [22] [23] [25]



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07 February 2024

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