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Fig. 1 —Natural history of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Small
proportion of patients with fatty liver develop nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.
Less than 10% of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis patients develop cirrhosis.
Current research is aimed at detecting early stages of fibrosis that are
potentially reversible. aProbable percentage of patients with
hepatic steatosis progressing to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.
bDisease progression (%) of all nonalcoholic steatohepatitis
patients.
