The sub-Saharan Africa position statement on the redefinition of fatty liver disease: From NAFLD to MAFLD

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7925, South Africa.
• ² Medical Department, St. Paul's Hospital, Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• ³ School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda.
• ⁴ Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, School of Medicine, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana.
• ⁵ Gastroenterology and Liver Pathology Unit, Department of Morbid Anatomy, Obafemi Awolowo University and Teaching Hospital Complex, Ile Ife, Nigeria.
• ⁶ Egyptian Association for the Study of Liver and Gastrointestinal Disease (EASLGD), Police Medical Academy, Cairo, Egypt.
• ⁷ Ibn Sina Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan.
• ⁸ Department of Medicine, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria.
• ⁹ Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endemic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, Minia, Egypt.
• ¹⁰ Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano and Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria.
• ¹¹ Aga Khan Hospital, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
• ¹² Departement of Gastroenterology, University of Witwatersr, Chris Hani Baraguanath Academic Hospital, Johansberg, South Africa.
• ¹³ Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Egypt. Electronic address: [email protected].