WASHINGTON—A multidisciplinary program for fatty liver disease can enable more referrals for bariatric surgery and otherwise help get patients into weight loss treatment with medications or nutrition plans, according to a trio of studies presented at The Liver Meeting by researchers from Yale School of Medicine.
“We all recognize that obesity is a growing problem,” said investigator Ysabel Ilagan-Ying, MD, a resident at Yale, in New Haven, Conn. “Fatty liver disease is