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> before 1985 T2D was called adult onset diabetes considered an adult disease and 1983 was the first case of pediatric nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. This s
by p_j_w 2y ago
> before 1985 T2D was called adult onset diabetes considered an adult disease and 1983 was the first case of pediatric nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
This statement is factually false, though: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589555921000379#:~:text=Fatty%20liver%20had%20been%20identified,steatohepatitis%20(NASH)%20in%201980 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258955592.... It may not have been explicitly called that, but it was clearly shown to exist. This is not some new phenomenon that first popped up after the introduction of seed oil.
- throwawaycities 2y ago>that statement is factually false Per the study you linked: >The term non-alcoholic fatty liver disease entered the hepatology lexicon in 1986, introduced by Fenton Schaffner (American physician and pathologist). As you acknowledge the disease didn’t even have a name until 1986, or 3 years after the first diagnosis in children. There is nothing in the study you link suggesting kids were being diagnosed and treated for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease pre-1983 under a different name - they weren’t. This is easy enough to confirm on google independently [1]. >This is not some new phenomenon Yes it is, in the ~40 years since the first recorded medical diagnosis it’s become an epidemic effecting 5-10% of kids or ~10M kids in the US. There is no way this is not a new phenomenon and 5-10% of kids had nonalcholic fatty liver disease throughout history and we have no record of it. [1] Title: Steatohepatitis in Obese Children: A Cause of Chronic Liver Dysfunction.