Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in clinical practice – one year outpatient clinic and NAFLD lifestyle educational program (NALEP) experience in Vienna

Background: Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a chronic and progressive liver disease strongly associated with the metabolic syndrome (MS). The only established therapies are life style intervention and treatment of participating metabolic disorders like dyslipidemia and diabetes. Aims/Methods: All patients at the Vienna NAFLD outpatients clinic were offered the possibility to join a monthly NAFLD lifestyle educational program (NALEP) especially developed by our dietitians. We retrospectively analyzed the data available for up to six months after the first intervention. Results: To date, 48 patients partic…