Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and hypertension: a bidirectional, mutually aggravating relationship

This article presents a set of clinical guidelines for the management of patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a section on the specifics of managing patients with NAFLD and concomitant arterial hypertension (AH). The review examines the pathogenetic relationships of hypertension development in patients with NAFLD. The results of multicenter studies and meta-analyses demonstrating the relationship between these diseases are presented. The main directions of diagnostics and features of antihypertensive therapy in this category of patients are considered.