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Fatty Liver Disease Ups Heart Risks for Obese Kids
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 "The well-publicized pandemic of pediatric obesity has many consequences," de Ferranti said. "Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is a less well known, but increasingly appreciated, late complication of severe obesity that can lead to cirrhosis and liver failure," she said.
"Pediatric practitioners should be aware of the need to look for a broad range of obesity complications, and families will need to understand that obesity is not purely a cosmetic issue but has important health consequences," de Ferranti said. "Unless we address this pediatric obesity aggressively, we will be facing high rates in young adults of not only diabetes and heart attack, but also liver disease and the demand for liver transplant."
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Last updated 6/30/2008
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SOURCES: Jeffrey Schwimmer, M.D., associate professor, pediatrics, University of California, San Diego; Sarah de Ferranti, M.D., M.P.H., director, Preventive Cardiology Clinic, Children's Hospital Boston; July 8, 2008, Circulation
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