Liver Disease is Up... in Children!

A new report has come out that more pediatricians are seeing kids with globs of fat cells in their liver concentrations that shouldn't be there. In fact, what they find is millions are affected. Researchers in the journal Clinical Liver Disease estimate that 5 to 10 percent of all US children have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, making it about as common as asthma is. And if we look at the data from 2017 to 2021, it shows a large jump in the incidence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease across all ages of the nation, but the steepest increase by far is in our children. For kids up to age 17, the rate of diagnosis more than doubled. What that means is a million hospitalizations. Mostly adults are being treated in emergency rooms or admitted in 2020. And liver transplants have likewise grown among adolescents and young adults 25 percent increased during the past decade in kids 11 to 17. And transplants for young adults 18 to 34 more than doubled. What is going on here?

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