Almost Half of Spanish Children with Overweight or Obesity Have Fatty Liver: 'They Are Very Worrying Data'

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On International Fat Liver Day, June 12, hepatologists consider that the upward trend of fatty liver in minors can be reversed with a strategy based on anticipation. “If we want different results, we have to do different things, and that basically means that we cannot be satisfied with diagnosing and treating advanced patients, but we must identify patients who have not yet developed fibrosis or present it in initial stages,” explains the presid…

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Hepatologists have been warning for a long time about the unstoppable progression of metabolic hepatic steatosis, known as fatty liver. Now, they warn about the "worrying" growth of this disease at ever earlier ages. So much so that up to 40% of overweight or obese children present it. The hope point is that a modification of diet patterns and physical activity in these small patients allows the reversal of fatty liver in more than 80% of cases.

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The Spanish Association for the Study of Liver (AEEH) warns about the growth of cases of fatty liver at an increasing age; it is estimated that it affects up to 15 percent of children under 16 years of age, when a decade ago it was a disease that only existed in adults.