In medicine, language matters and the words used to name and describe a disease can
have a profound impact on patients and their families. Over the last two decades, many …

Multiple global environmental changes (GECs) now under way, including climate change,
biodiversity loss, freshwater depletion, tropical deforestation, overexploitation of fisheries …

There is a growing recognition of the links between the increasing prevalence of
noncommunicable diseases, environmental concerns including biodiversity loss and …

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a continuum of liver abnormalities often starting
as simple steatosis and to potentially progress into nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) …

In a Comment (February, 2017), 1 we argued that action on the conditions currently referred
to as noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) may be hampered by the inadequacy of their …

States and globally. 1-3 NAFLD is the hepatic manifestation of the metabolic syndrome and
is closely associated with diabetes and obesity. Coinciding with large increases in metabolic …

In 2020, international consensus guidelines recommended the renaming of non-alcoholic
fatty liver disease (NAFLD) to metabolic-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD), supported …

The emerging concept of planetary health emphasizes that the health of human civilization
is intricately connected to the health of natural systems within the Earth's biosphere; here …

There have been many debates in recent years as to whether the communicable disease
versus non-communicable disease (NCD) division is a meaningful one in disease …

Non-communicable diseases contribute significantly to the disease burden within South
Africa. In the most unequal of societies in the world, poverty and socio-economic disparity …