Doctors are warning that soaring rates of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD, could impose an enormous burden on Canadian health care over the next decade if there isn't more public awareness.
CALGARY -- Doctors are warning that soaring rates of a common, but often undetected, liver disease could impose an enormous burden on Canadian health care over the next decade if there isn't more public awareness.
Swain, who directs the university's gastroenterology and hepatology division, said physicians have historically treated it as relatively benign because liver fat usually just sits there and doesn't do much. The study found cases of NAFLD are on track to rise 20 per cent in that time frame and that its more advanced form, NASH, is projected to rise by 35 per cent.
A dollar figure for the cost-burden on the health-care system has not been calculated in Canada, but Swain expects it would be "astronomical."
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