Pediatric Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Report from the Expert Committee on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (ECON)

Affiliations

¹ Steatohepatitis Center, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
² Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, and the Digestive Health Institute, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO.
³ Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
⁴ Stanford Children's Health, Stanford, CA.
⁵ Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Discipline of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
⁶ Children's Gastroenterology, Memorial Care Specialty Group, Long Beach, CA.
⁷ Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
⁸ Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, and Department of Gastroenterology, Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, CA. Electronic address: jschwimmer@ucsd.edu.

Rohit Kohli et al. J Pediatr. 2016 May.

. 2016 May:172:9-13.

doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2015.12.016. Epub 2016 Jan 1.

¹ Steatohepatitis Center, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
² Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, and the Digestive Health Institute, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO.
³ Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
⁴ Stanford Children's Health, Stanford, CA.
⁵ Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Discipline of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
⁶ Children's Gastroenterology, Memorial Care Specialty Group, Long Beach, CA.
⁷ Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
⁸ Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, and Department of Gastroenterology, Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, CA. Electronic address: jschwimmer@ucsd.edu.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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