CORDIS Project
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This project aims to adapt a non-invasive MRI test for diagnosing liver disease in children, addressing the growing issue of childhood obesity-related liver conditions. The goal is to establish a reliable diagnostic tool that can improve liver health outcomes in young patients.
As for adults, chronic liver disease is children is a major, rapidly growing health problem.
The main causal factor is obesity, leading to fatty liver disease and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.
Inadequately treated children with liver disease will impose a disproportionate life-long burden on a nation’s healthcare system.
In the EU, one third of adolescents is overweight/obese.
Current techniques to diagnose and monitor liver disease in children are poor, insensitive or invasive.
Liver biopsy is…
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