Jonathan Jennings, MS, MD, a board-certified internist with Medical Offices of Manhattan, likewise not involved in this study, expressed a similar sentiment about the limitations of its findings.
“The inclusion criteria required only one cardiometabolic risk factor, and it could be any risk factor. I am concerned that not all risks are equal, and people with multiple factors are at higher risk than those with a single risk factor,“ Jennings told us.
“Type 2 diabetes is more likely to lead to MASLD than high blood pressure but the study evaluates them as equal risk factors,” he pointed out. Read the full article.
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