Official Journal of the Albanian Society of Internal Medicine

ISSN 3007-6692

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THE SILENT EPIDEMIC: THE NEED FOR GREATER FOCUS ON MAFLD

Dear Editor, I am writing to draw attention to the growing concern of Metabolic Dysfunction‐Associated Fatty Liver Disease (MAFLD), a new term for an old multisystem disorder, a term that replaced NAFLD in early 2020 (1). The global prevalence of MAFLD is estimated to be around 25- 32% of the adult population (2). This makes it one of the most common chronic liver diseases worldwide.