Fatty liver in adolescents: Mechanisms, clinical features and therapy.

The article discusses issues associated with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), which is currently the most common cause of chronic liver disease in children. Topics discussed include prevalence of NAFLD due to unhealthy diet and sedentary lifestyle, pathogenesis of NAFLD involving both genetic and environmental factors and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in genes involved in lipid metabolism.