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Podcast: Surfing the MASH Tsunami
Episode: S5 - E3.1 - Why create a new MASLD nomenclature?
Description: This conversation focuses on the issues and visions that led to the identified need for a new MASLD nomenclature. Maru Rinella and Jeff Lazarus discuss the original goals of the process and how focus broadened and shifted throughout.It starts with Maru Rinella describing what she terms “an existential crisis” for the field around a publication suggesting changing the name of the disease from “non-alcoholic” fatty liver disease to “metabolic” fatty liver disease. She considers this the main impetus for key global players to converge. Jeff Lazarus notes that stigma and several other processes came into the discussion...