Asia-Pacific Working Party on Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease guidelines 2017-Part 1: Definition, risk factors and assessment.

The article presents the 2017 Asia-Pacific Working Party on Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease guidelines which cover diagnosis, screening, assessment and treatment. It discusses a proposed positive definition of the disease which is related to over-nutrition in the absence of excessive alcohol consumption. It also offers information on the pathological subtypes and outcomes of the disease.