Edited by Geoffrey C. Farrell, Jacob George, Pauline de la M. Hall, and Arthur J. McCullough. 319 pp., illustrated. Malden, Mass., Blackwell, 2005. $125. ISBN 1-405-11292-1.
Since its early editions, the seminal textbook on liver andbiliary diseases edited by the late Dame Sheila Sherlock hastaught countless hepatologists that the most common histologicpicture associated with an elevation of liver enzymes discoveredat routine screening is steatosis. Excluding alcohol-relatedsteatosis and chronic hepatitis C, fatty liver disease is stillthe most common liver disease in the United States, with a prevalenceof about 5 percent in the general population. This figure soarsto more than 90 percent among persons with obesity, diabetes,or hyperlipidemia. Given the increasing prevalence of obesityin young people, the incidence . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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