About the Special Issue

Personalized medicine and nutrition in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a medical-nutritional approach involving diagnostic tools, medical tests, and genomic analysis to identify the risk of disease using the individual's genetic and phenotypic profile and tailoring medical treatment and dietary interventions accordingly. 

It aims to improve an individual's health and well-being by making clinical decisions based on our knowledge of how genes interact with environmental factors (diet, physical activity, and emotions), as well as the effect of ethnicity and culture. Furthermore, personalized medicine and nutrition can provide prevention and early disease detection strategies, transforming the health system and improving public health. 

Personalized medicine and nutrition in NAFLD is a relatively new field that requires educating and training healthcare professionals and medical specialists by means of updated pre-graduate and postgraduate curricula to increase awareness of how personalized approaches benefit healthcare. 

For this Special Issue "Personalized Medicine and Nutrition in NAFLD", we welcome research identifying genetic polymorphisms or variants that increase the risk of developing NAFLD or other NAFLD-related metabolic conditions (obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia); medical or nutritional intervention studies that prevent or revert these conditions based on the population's genetic profile and environmental factors; novel models of clinical algorithms incorporating genomic or omics data in the course of NAFLD management with emphasis on prevention or early detection; genetic/molecular diagnostic tools; genes and NAFLD-related cirrhosis, role of gut microbiota in the course of NAFLD, genes and NAFLD-related hepatocellular carcinoma. 

Keywords: NAFLD, NASH, steatosis, obesity, dyslipidemia, genotypes, risk alleles, lifestyle, diet, culture, social environment, gene-environment interactions, genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, metagenomics, diet, physical activity, emotions, liver disease, personalized medicine, precision medicine, personalized nutrition, precision nutrition

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