Risk of later liver disease in overweight or obese men starts as early as adolescence

Young men who are overweight or obese could run a higher risk of developing severe liver disease or liver cancer in later life, a new study published online in the journal Gut has suggested. Researchers from Sweden found that the risk of having a high body mass index (BMI) for developing severe liver disease seemed to be present from an early age and was heightened by the development of type 2 diabetes. For the study researchers led by Dr Hannes Hagström of the Centre for Digestive Diseases at the Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm in Sweden, set out to investigate how…