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State Tipoffs Involving California Newsletter for Monday March 11, 2024 ( 1 items )  

UC-San Francisco: What's Behind the Surge of Fatty Liver Disease in Latinx Kids
SAN FRANCISCO, California, March 11 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Francisco campus issued the following news release: For Latinx kids, unreliable access to food at age 4 raises the odds of having fatty liver disease later in childhood by nearly four times, a new UC San Francisco-led study found. About 5% to 10% of children in the United States have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, putting its prevalence on par with asthma. Pediatric cases have spiked in the last decade, with mi  more