Changes in the Global Burden of Chronic Liver Diseases From 2012 to 2017: The Growing Impact of NAFLD

Background and Aims Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and alcohol‐associated liver disease (ALD) are main causes of chronic liver disease. We assessed the global incidence, mortality, and disability‐adjusted life‐years (DALYs) related to chronic liver disease (primary liver cancer [LC] and cirrhosis). Approach and Results We obtained data from the 2017 Global Burden of Disease...