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Podcast: Surfing the MASH Tsunami
Episode: S5 - E17.4 - Previewing EASL Congress 2024: Is Big Data The Future Of MASLD?
Description: This conversation revolves largely around two Big Data presentations Hannes Hagstrom's team is sharing at the EASL Congress. Every other panelist has at least one meaningful comment to make about the future of Big Data in MASLD.Hannes describes two big data studies of his own, "very much Big Data, but it's not omics." One examined 860,000 residents of Stockholm who took a liver test between 2010-2022 seeking to estimate liver and cardiovascular risk. It relied on a tool from Stefano Romeo's group called the Fibrotic Mass Index. The results demonstrated the prediction of liver-related and cardiovascular-related outcomes.<...