Novel perspectives on hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction as a risk factor for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

CONCLUSIONS: Hormonal substitution of endocrine deficiencies has been shown to have beneficial effects at least in some instances. While the association between type 2 diabetes and NAFLD is well known, there is rather limited appreciation of the condition among common endocrine diseases involving hypothalamic-pituitary axes. In diseases involving hypothalamic-pituitary areas and manifesting clinically with endocrine deficiencies of hypothalamic-pituitary axes such as childhood- onset craniopharyngioma NAFLD is a frequent sequela of hypothalmic obesity. PMID: 27405476 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Minerva Endocrinologica - Category: Endocrinology Tags: Minerva Endocrinol Source Type: research