From the superb writer Wayne Eskridge of the Fatty Liver Foundation:
“When we look at the success of modern medicine and track the change in death rate for major diseases over time, a tragedy becomes clear. Since 1970, medicine has slowly been winning against all of the major killers except for one. The most glaring failure of medicine is clear in this chart from CDC records.
My story, like so many, is clearly mirrored in this chart. When I was told I had stage 4 cirrhosis in 2010, it was the first time I had ever heard of NAFLD/NASH. In the decades before that no doctor had ever talked with me about liver health and I don’t believe any ever thought about my liver.”
Liver disease — affecting 42% of American adults — is increasing recognized. Seen. That is, we’re long past the times when we demonized liver disease patients as “drinkers” and “needle sharers.” Those were dark days.
And yet there’s a radical dearth of screening, despite the fact that there are petabytes of actionable data in America’s EMRs.
LiverRight? We see ourselves as Preventative Hepatology.
