Diabetes Week and fatty liver disease

This week is Diabetes Week so I've been speaking to Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust hepatologist Professor Guru Aithal, whose research includes investigating fatty liver disease. Research is showing that diabetes and fatty liver disease have the kind of relationship where if they were in the same class at school, you'd separate them to stop them egging each other on.

We talked about how that relationship works, as well as how a better understanding of genetics means we'll be much more able to predict who'll respond to what kind of treatment, and why we need a genetic database that isn't so skewed towards western ethnicities.

• More information on Diabetes Week at the Diabetes UK website.
• Prof Guru Aithal is the Gastrointestinal and Liver Disorders lead at the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, and a professor at the University of Nottingham.

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