STAT+: A new kind of liver crisis is emerging in the U.S. The American diet is to blame

The United States is hardly the only country where heavy and binge drinking is a problem. But Americans face a unique crisis: This country’s obesity and diabetes epidemics, combined with heavy alcohol use, are causing more people to get sick from a liver disease that, until recently, didn’t even have a name.  Metabolic dysfunction and alcohol-associated liver disease, or MetALD, is now a leading concern among doctors in the U.S. as more young people and women face serious illness and die from th...