Comments on 'High serum vitamin D levels reduce the risk for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in healthy men independent of metabolic syndrome'

摘要

We have read with a great interest an article by Rhee EJ et al. [1] published recently in this journal. In the past decades, increasing prevalence and co-existence of obesity, metabolic syndrome (MS), non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and hypovitamino-sis D elicited a public health concern [2, 3]. However, new data including this publication [1] considerably changed hierarchy of MS components, shifting the focus from obesity toward fatty liver, at first and now toward vitamin D deficiency [4]. Apart from the interest and curiosity, we are feeling certain fear that we might be misled due to the fact that we are dealing with a still imprecisely defined terms.