Dr. Schwimmer is Professor of Pediatrics at University of California, San Diego and Director of the Fatty Liver Clinic at Rady Children's Hospital San Diego
Joined January 2013
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Clinical and translational research in pediatric gastroenterology had an overall average annual growth rate of 51.7% from 1970 through 2017. journals.lww.com/jpgn/Abstra…
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FibroScan in pediatric #MASLD 🩺
📉 CAP poorly predicted steatosis
📉 LSM only modest for fibrosis staging
Better noninvasive pediatric tools are needed
doi.org/10.1002/jpn3.70284?u…
#pediatrics #pedsgi #Hepatology #openaccess
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Jeff Schwimmer retweeted
10 Jul 2025
MASLD incidence is rising in children, and its features differ from adult MASLD in important ways: jci.org/articles/view/186422
@TheLiverPost, @SudhaBiddinger, @SamarHIbrahimMD review the epidemiology, perinatal influences, genetics, and distinct zonation patterns of pediatric MASLD.
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1 Jul 2025
📢 New in @jclinicalinvest : We explore pediatric MASLD as a distinct, early-onset liver disease shaped by perinatal factors, genetics, and hepatic zonation.
@SudhaBiddinger @SamarHIbrahimMD
Opportunities for early intervention start in childhood.
🔗jci.org/articles/view/186422
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29 Apr 2025
🚨The LIVERS study now in @HEP_Journal the longest follow-up study of pediatric MASLD shows children with MASLD face a mortality rate >40x higher than peers. @UCSD @radychildrens @sdsuhealth today.ucsd.edu/story/childre…
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2 Feb 2025
Lovely #GUTOnline #GUTRecentAdvancesInClinicalPractice paper by Goyal et al on
"Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease in children" via
bit.ly/3PWRNfz
@theliverpost #MASLD
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28 Jan 2025
🚨 Our latest paper, "Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease in Children," is now in @Gut_BMJ
➤ Epidemiology, Diagnosis and Treatment Strategies
Thank you Dr Nidhi Goyal & @DrStavra
@UCSDHealthSci @radychildrens @CincyChildrens
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10 Dec 2024
🚨 New publication alert! 🚨
Our systematic review on exercise for pediatric MASLD is now in @PLOSONE We uncover major gaps in evidence and propose research priorities to develop evidence-based exercise guidelines for kids. @UCSDHealthSci @radychildrens
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#JNutr 12-wk trial finds "daily #PentadecanoicAcid (C15:0) supplementation increased circulating C15:0 levels in young adults with #overweight or #obesity." Findings fit with growing evidence that C15:0 may be beneficial for #MetabolicHealth. @TheLiverPost ow.ly/9a2f50SO3bn
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28 May 2024
The Trouble with Turmeric, by @DrJenGunter open.substack.com/pub/vajend…
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6 Mar 2024
We collaborated with @KPDOR to evaluate liver health in Asian and Pacific Islander children. Chinese and Filipino children with overweight and obesity had the highest rates of elevated liver chemistry and suspected MASLD. @UCSDHealth @radychildrens
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27 Feb 2024
🚨4.4% of adolescents meet criteria for metabolic and bariatric surgery. Our new study of > 500,000 teenagers details BMI and co-morbid health conditions.
@AmerAcadPeds @KPSanDiego @UCSDHealth @radychildrens
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11 Dec 2023
It was such a joy to spend time with the world's funniest eye dentist @DGlaucomflecken and the inspiring CPR superhero @LGlaucomflecken at their wonderful show Wife & Death
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4 Oct 2023
Our patients, research and histology from the Rady Children's Fatty Liver Clinic and UCSD ACTRI are featured in this article by @arianaeunjung highlighting the crises of pediatric non-alcoholic fatty liver disease @radychildrens
@UCSDHealthSci
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2 Sep 2023
Go Bears! 🏑
2 Sep 2023
FINAL!
WHAT A WIN!
Daniella Rhodes with the game winner in double overtime!
Cal upsets No. 5 Penn State 3-2!
#GoBears
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1 May 2023
NEW study: in children at risk for NAFLD, hepatic steatosis was more strongly associated with adipose regionalization than total adipose amount. The association of lean mass was not independent of fat mass or body weight @UCSDHealthSci @radychildrens liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1…
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🚨May issue of @AGA_CGH 892 children with NAFLD: annual incidence of type 2 diabetes was 30 times higher than previously reported in other pediatric populations. ➡️Severity of steatosis and fibrosis were risk factors @UCSDHealthSci @NIDDKgov cghjournal.org/article/S1542…
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28 Feb 2023
Now in @JPGNReports Distinguishing autoimmune hepatitis from steatohepatitis in adolescents with obesity and positive screening ALT @NASPGHAN @AmberHildreth13 shows the importance of a comprehensive evaluation to reach an accurate diagnosis journals.lww.com/jpgnr/Fullt…
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7 Nov 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Wang of @UCSDHealthSci and @radychildrens on winning an Early Career Investigator Award. He presented our work on Development of a Clinical Prediction Rule for Fibrosis in Children with NAFLD #TLM22 @AASLDFoundation
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In Korea, the odds of an adolescent having nonalcoholic fatty liver disease was 1.8 times higher if father had NAFLD, 2.2 times higher if mother had NAFLD, and 2.6 times higher if both parents had NAFLD. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…