It is time to expand the fatty liver disease community of practice.
It is time to expand the fatty liver disease community of practice.
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10.1097/hep.0000000000000411
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2023-11-01
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据估计，全世界有1 / 3的成人和1 / 8的儿童患有目前称为NAFLD的慢性肝病NAFLD与肝硬化风险增加有关，肝硬化是肝癌发病率增加的重要因素，也是肝移植的主要指征从许多方面来看，美国都是最大的医疗保健市场，它是否有越来越多的人才来解决脂肪肝及其相关并发症的严重程度？如图1所示，最近对Indeed的搜索。一个主要的职业网站，显示了大约33个与NAFLD相关的空缺职位，NAFLD是目前与脂肪肝疾病最相关的缩写。“脂肪肝”这个词？目前有126个职位空缺。当我们缩小搜索范围，只搜索“肝脏”这个词时，会发生什么？我们看到大约有4000个职位空缺。因此，尽管NAFLD患病率在比例上高于其他肝脏疾病，但与总体肝脏相关疾病相比，脂肪肝导向疾病的公开报道似乎微不足道。图2说明了当我们将范围扩大到其他疾病和公共卫生风险类别，认识到它们可能重叠或可能涉及双重诊断时，会发生什么。类似的搜索显示，有超过12万个与“癌症”相关的职位空缺。对于“心脏病”这个短语？只差34,000个空缺职位。对于糖尿病这个词？超过23000个工作岗位。
An estimated 1 in 3 adults [1]—and 1 in 8 children [2]—worldwide have the form of chronic liver disease presently known as NAFLD.[3] NAFLD is associated with an increased risk of cirrhosis, an important contributor to the growing incidence of liver cancer and a leading indication for liver transplantation.[4] Does the US, the largest health care market by many measures, have a growing talent base to address the sheer magnitude of fatty liver disease and associated complications?As illustrated in Figure 1, recent searches on Indeed. com, a major careers website, revealed~ 33 open jobs associated with NAFLD, the acronym presently most associated with fatty liver disease. For the phrase “fatty liver”? There are 126 open jobs. What happens when we zoom out and search for just the word “liver”? We see~ 4000 open jobs. Thus, even though NAFLD prevalence dominates other liver diseases proportionally, the open postings for fatty liver-oriented roles seem trivial compared with overall liver-associated ones. Figure 2 illustrates what happens when we zoom out more broadly to other disease and public health risk categories, recognizing that they may overlap or may involve dual diagnoses. Similar searches revealed over 120,000 open jobs associated with the word “cancer”. For the phrase “heart disease?” Just shy of 34,000 open jobs. For the word diabetes? Just over 23,000 jobs.