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Salvatore Petta

Salvatore Petta

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Medicine

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28714
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Overview

Salvatore Petta is affiliated with the University of Palermo in Italy. Their research primarily centers on medicine, with a significant focus on epidemiology, hepatology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, pathology and forensic medicine, and surgery.

The main topics of Salvatore Petta's work include:

  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Liver Disease and Transplantation
  • Hepatitis C virus research
  • Liver Diseases and Immunity
  • Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
  • Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis
  • Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects

Salvatore Petta has contributed to several recent papers, some of which are:

  • EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines on non-invasive tests for evaluation of liver disease severity and prognosis - 2021 update, 2021, Journal of Hepatology
  • Genome-wide association study of non-alcoholic fatty liver and steatohepatitis in a histologically characterised cohort, 2020, Journal of Hepatology
  • Diagnostic accuracy of non-invasive tests for advanced fibrosis in patients with NAFLD: an individual patient data meta-analysis, 2021, Gut
  • Transcriptomic profiling across the nonalcoholic fatty liver disease spectrum reveals gene signatures for steatohepatitis and fibrosis, 2020, Science Translational Medicine
  • Non-invasive stratification of hepatocellular carcinoma risk in non-alcoholic fatty liver using polygenic risk scores, 2020, Journal of Hepatology

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Salvatore Petta include:

  • Grazia Pennisi
  • Elisabetta Bugianesi
  • Luca Valenti
  • V. Di Marco
  • Antonio Craxì

The primary publication venues where Salvatore Petta's work has appeared are:

  • Journal of Hepatology
  • Digestive and Liver Disease
  • Liver International
  • Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • Hepatology

Best Publications

  • Modeling NAFLD Disease Burden in China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States for the period 2016-2030

    Chris Estes;Quentin M. Anstee;Maria Teresa Arias-Loste;Heike Bantel

  • EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines on non-invasive tests for evaluation of liver disease severity and prognosis – 2021 update

    Annalisa Berzigotti;Emmanouil Tsochatzis;Jerome Boursier;Laurent Castera

  • Enoxaparin Prevents Portal Vein Thrombosis and Liver Decompensation in Patients With Advanced Cirrhosis

    Erica Villa;Calogero Cammà;Marco Marietta;Monica Luongo

  • Advancing the global public health agenda for NAFLD: a consensus statement.

    Jeffrey V Lazarus;Henry E Mark;Quentin M Anstee;Juan Pablo Arab

  • Age as a Confounding Factor for the Accurate Non-Invasive Diagnosis of Advanced NAFLD Fibrosis

    Stuart McPherson;Stuart McPherson;Tim Hardy;Tim Hardy;Jean-Francois Dufour;Salvatore Petta

  • The MBOAT7-TMC4 Variant rs641738 Increases Risk of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Individuals of European Descent

    Rosellina Margherita Mancina;Paola Dongiovanni;Salvatore Petta;Piero Pingitore

  • Low vitamin D serum level is related to severe fibrosis and low responsiveness to interferon-based therapy in genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C

    Salvatore Petta;Calogero Cammà;Concetta Scazzone;Claudio Tripodo

  • Transmembrane 6 superfamily member 2 gene variant disentangles nonalcoholic steatohepatitis from cardiovascular disease

    Paola Dongiovanni;Salvatore Petta;Cristina Maglio;Anna Ludovica Fracanzani

  • Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease pathogenesis: the present and the future.

    S. Petta;C. Muratore;A. Craxì

  • Statin use and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in at risk individuals

    Paola Dongiovanni;Salvatore Petta;Ville Mannisto;Rosellina Margherita Mancina

  • Genome-wide association study of non-alcoholic fatty liver and steatohepatitis in a histologically-characterised cohort.

    Quentin M. Anstee;Quentin M. Anstee;Rebecca Darlay;Simon Cockell;Marica Meroni

  • Epidemiology of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis: Implications for Liver Transplantation

    Zobair M Younossi;Giulio Marchesini;Helena Pinto-Cortez;Salvatore Petta

  • Diagnostic accuracy of non-invasive tests for advanced fibrosis in patients with NAFLD: an individual patient data meta-analysis

    Ferenc Emil Mózes;Jenny A Lee;Emmanuel Anandraj Selvaraj;Arjun Narayan Ajmer Jayaswal

  • Diet, weight loss, and liver health in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: Pathophysiology, evidence, and practice.

    Giulio Marchesini;Salvatore Petta;Riccardo Dalle Grave

  • Incidence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Patients With HCV-Associated Cirrhosis Treated With Direct-Acting Antiviral Agents.

    Vincenza Calvaruso;Giuseppe Cabibbo;Irene Cacciola;Salvatore Petta

  • AISF position paper on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD): Updates and future directions

    Amedeo Lonardo;Fabio Nascimbeni;Giovanni Targher;Mauro Bernardi

  • Causal relationship of hepatic fat with liver damage and insulin resistance in nonalcoholic fatty liver.

    P Dongiovanni;S Stender;A Pietrelli;Rosellina Margherita Mancina

  • Hepatitis C Virus Infection Is Associated With Increased Cardiovascular Mortality: A Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies

    Salvatore Petta;Marcello Maida;Fabio Salvatore Macaluso;Marco Barbara

  • Insulin resistance and diabetes increase fibrosis in the liver of patients with genotype 1 HCV infection.

    Salvatore Petta;Calogero Cammà;Vito Di Marco;Nicola Alessi

  • Enoxaparin Prevents Portal Vein Thrombosisand Liver Decompensation in Patients With Advanced Cirrhosis.

    Calogero Camma;Salvatore Petta;Cristina Tata;Mariagrazia Del Buono

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio Craxì
Antonio Craxì University of Palermo
Calogero Cammà
Calogero Cammà University of Palermo
Luca Valenti
Luca Valenti University of Milan
Elisabetta Bugianesi
Elisabetta Bugianesi University of Turin
Anna Ludovica Fracanzani
Anna Ludovica Fracanzani University of Milan
Stefano Romeo
Stefano Romeo University of Gothenburg
Giulio Marchesini
Giulio Marchesini University of Bologna
Quentin M. Anstee
Quentin M. Anstee Newcastle University
Silvia Fargion
Silvia Fargion University of Milan
Fabio Marra
Fabio Marra University of Florence

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