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Podcast: Surfing the MASH Tsunami
Episode: S4-E11.4 - Increasing Incidence of Type-2 Diabetes Among Adolescents
Description: The Surfers are joined by Jeff McIntyre of the Global Liver Institute (GLI) for a thought-provoking impromptu session on what’s happening thus far for the Fatty Liver field in 2023. Roger Green begins this conversation by introducing a timely Lancet paper which coincided with the previous episode's focus on pediatric and adolescent NAFLD and NASH. The US-based study suggests that in five randomly allocated centers from 2002 to 2018, annual increase in incidence of Type-2 diabetes among 10-19 year-olds was a staggering 5% per year. He connects these findings to aforementioned ideas around public health policy and nutrition. Louise Campbell comments on how th...