Disparities in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease Prevalence, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Outcomes: A Narrative Review.

Background: Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), formerly known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, and health disparities have been shown to influence disease burden.

Aim: In this review, we aim to characterize disparities in prevalence, diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of MASLD, and to make recommendations for next steps to minimize these disparities.

Methods: Literature search on PubMed and Scopus databases was conducted to identify relevant articles published before September 2, 2024.

Larger wind turbines as a solution to reduce environmental impacts.

The EU aims for carbon neutrality by 2050, focusing on offshore wind energy. Investments in North Sea wind farms, with optimal wind resources, play a crucial role. We employed a high-resolution regional climate model, which incorporates a wind farm parametrization, to investigate and address potential mitigating impacts of large wind farms on power generation and air-sea fluxes.

Telehealth Coverage for a Pediatric Gastroenterology Consult Service at a Regional Hospital: An Accepted, Useful, and Sustainable Model of Care.

Objective: To evaluate a novel telehealth inpatient pediatric gastroenterology (GI) consult service at a regional children's hospital in regard to acceptance, utility, quality, sustainability, and provider resiliency.

Study Design: Patients requiring GI care at a regional children's hospital between July 2020 and June 2021 were treated by an in-person or telehealth physician with physician assistant support, randomly assigned based on a weekly preset staffing schedule. A retrospective, multidomain program evaluation was performed based on the RE-AIM (reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, and maintenance) and STEM (SPROUT Telehealth Evaluation and Management) frameworks, using statistical analysis to compare the patient cohorts and anonymous surveys to assess provider perceptions.

Impacts of accelerating deployment of offshore windfarms on near-surface climate.

The European Union has set the ambitious goal of becoming climate neutral by 2050, which has stimulated renewable energy production and accelerated the deployment of offshore wind energy in the North Sea. Here, a high-resolution regional climate model was used to investigate the impact on the sea surface climate of large-scale offshore wind farms that are proposed for the North Sea. The results show a significant reduction in the air-sea heat fluxes and a local, annual mean net cooling of the lower atmosphere in the wind farm areas down to more than 2.