Serious liver scarring from fatty liver disease is not only a problem of later life. A new UC San Diego-led study found that about one in four cases of cirrhosis caused by metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, or MASLD, occurred before age 50.
The research, published online Sept. 16 in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, found that people who develop cirrhosis before 50 have a distinct risk profile shaped by inherited genetic factors and type 2 diabetes.