BOSTON—Food insecurity is a known risk factor for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease in adults, and kids suffer too, with new research presented at The Liver Meeting 2023 showing that adolescents in food insecure environments twice as likely as peers with ample access to high-quality food to have MASLD.
“It is important that physicians and providers pay attention to issues related to health disparities, which can be important drivers of this disease,"