Serious Liver Disease Found in Children as Young as 8 Years Old
Children with a bigger waist circumference at 3 are showing markers for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
People in today's society are having a seemingly harder and harder time maintaining a healthy body weight. With ease of access to screens, more and more children are following suit at younger ages. There are now studies that show greater health risks, than the more commonly known forms such as type 2 diabetes.
The Journal of Pediatrics has published a study showing children who have a higher accumulation of belly fat at age three who continued on this trend showed elevated levels of ALT, an enzyme marker for liver damage at age 8. This puts them at a greater risk of developing cirrhosis of the liver, or even liver cancer later in life. This study aims to urge people to make healthier life choices for themselves and their children, and the earlier you start the better your chances of avoiding these lifestyle diseases.
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