Liver diseases among Arab world, current state and unmet needs, a scoping review

Abstract

Liver diseases are increasing nowadays worldwide with increase in morbidity and mortality, which cause a burden to countries. we aimed to provide an overview of the current state and unmet needs in liver disease research in the Arab countries. We searched PubMed, Scopus, Web of Sciences (WOS), EBSCO, and Wiley databases for relevant articles from 2011 to January 29th, 2021, using different search terms that cover all liver diseases in addition to names of the Arab countries. All relevant studies that discuss any liver disease in any of the Arab countries were selected irrespective of age, sex, region, publishing year, or publishing language. We excluded review articles, non-human studies and publications study the surgically related liver diseases as liver transplantation and biliary diseases. 3030 publications were included, All included studies were categorized by topics and evaluated by research team to identify the current state and gaps in research need to be strengthened.