From Margin to Mainstream: Why Liver Health Should Sit at the Centre of the Global NCD Response

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The 79th World Health Assembly has adopted the first-ever resolution on steatotic liver disease, marking a significant shift in global understanding of chronic metabolic diseases. An estimated 1.7 billion people are affected worldwide, highlighting the disease's broad public health implications.

The 79th World Health Assembly adopted the first-ever resolution on steatotic liver disease (SLD) last week. For those people working outside hepatology, the moment may have seemed unremarkable. In reality, it marks an important shift in how the global health community understands chronic disease, metabolic health and prevention. SLD affects an estimated 1.7 billion people […]