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Video; Fatty Liver Disease: Are You at Risk?


Barry Carpenter The 33 News
July 11, 2011
FORT WORTH, TEXAS— Jenny Carillo is like a growing number of young American's--she's 23 and was diagnosed with fatty liver disease when she was 19."I guess it's how you're parents teach you to eat," Jenny said. "I guess I always ate what my dad ate."


Dr. Shahid Aziz is gastroenterologist at Fort Worth Digestive Associates where more than 25% of his liver patients have some stage of fatty liver disease.In a one-year time span ending in March Dr. Aziz referred 11 patients for liver transplants--6 had fatty liver disease. He believes fatty liver disease will soon be the number one cause of liver transplants."It's dangerous because it is an insidious disease," Dr. Aziz said. "You don't have any symptoms and sometimes by the time the patient gets to me they have already had some problems along with fatty liver."


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