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Podcast: Surfing the MASH Tsunami
Episode: S3-E16.3 - What a Disease Model tells Us About NASH Patient Management
Description: This conversation explores the impact some suggestions and questions that arose at Liver Connect might have on data modeling. Roger Green starts by mentioning that the Liver Connect panels felt that waist circumference measurement might be a better treatment/diagnostic metric than BMI, since it reflects both fat distribution within the body and region of the world. The group generally agreed that while waist circumference has value in diagnosing and treating individual patients, it's relative scarcity of data and inconsistent administration from one practitioner to another (key question: exactly how consistent in the definition of "waist"?) made it a...