A man in Arizona just died from pneumonic plague. Before you freak out, here are 5 things you need to know about plague. LInk: open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

Welcome to read the Editor´s Choice in July! ➡️Accumulating understanding that diet, stress, toxins, and infections affect offspring health. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/joim.20094 👉Also, read the July issue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652796/2025/298/1 #epigenetics #inflammatorymemory

New Review Article to read! Gaucher disease, state of the art and perspectives #gaucherdisease #glucocerebrosidase #lysosomes 🔗Read here: doi.org/10.1111/joim...

New Editorial! Community prevalence of advanced liver fibrosis in Type 2 diabetes—How big is the challenge? #MASLD #T2D 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/joim... 👉This Editorial comments on: doi.org/10.1111/joim...

Read the News Release! Fatty liver – but not liver damage – common in type 2 diabetes | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

New review from us: Clinical Utility of Non-Invasive Tests for Liver Fibrosis in People Living With Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency. Happy to coauthor with leading experts and led by Joost Boeckmans. Nice start of a new project on AATD using Swedish data. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our medical staff are donating their own blood to provide life-saving treatment for patients in #Gaza. Patients that were gunned down while trying to get food. Food for their families. Food to live. We need an immediate #ceasefire, now.

Continuing today! The 19th Key symposium 2025: Planetary Health – connect the dots. What saves the planet saves our health! 19-21 May in Stockholm, Sweden. Gunhild Stordalen opens today´s program: key-symposium2025.se #PlanetaryHealth25

Pretty cool study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40309768/

The May issue is now online! 👉Read our latest articles! 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652796/2025/297/5 #medtwitter #cardiovascular #SGLT2 #diabetes #osteoporosis #Addisson #kidneycancer #hypertension #CKD

The #JSGE @myueg.bsky.social symposium with #lenakristinconradi and @liverepi.bsky.social on using a metabolic switch in #pancreaticcancer for therapy and #MASLD respectively. Truly worth their #risingstar awards!

🚨New paper from us in Journal of Hepatology - Using PEth values on >50,000 persons to predict outcomes. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

FDA approves first therapy for IgG4-related disease www.medscape.com/viewarticle/... #GastroSky #MedSky #RheumSky

Are you a researcher active outside of Europe who might consider coming to Sweden? Check out this @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social grant for recruitment of international visiting researchers! www.vr.se/english/appl...

Vote for Peter Stenvinkel as a "Sommar" radio show host: www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/kand... Would be such a nice experience!

New from Juan Vaz in our group: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... In >5400 patients with primary liver cancer (HCC), those with lower socio-economic parameters such as income levels have more advanced tumors at diagnosis, less frequently receive curative treatments and have poorer prognosis.

New paper from us in @jhepatology.bsky.social: www.journal-of-hepatology.eu/article/S016... Causes of death in >13,000 persons with #MASLD - check it out #liversky. So proud of co-senior author Axel Wester and first author medical student Gabriel Issa for the work!

What we are seeing with Musk and social media platforms is the strongest argument imaginable for maintaining and protecting independent European public service broadcasting. It's a vaccine against disinformation, and raises the quality of the overall national media ecosystem.

Interesting study from Alina Allen's group: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40105977/ Reassuring that MASLD diagnosis identified through screening led to weight loss and no major issues with increased anxiety.

April number of @jinternmed.bsky.social now out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652796...

Have you secured your spot for #EASLCongress 2025 on 7-10 May? 🌍Join us in Amsterdam or online to transform liver care worldwide! easlcongress.eu/2025-registr... 📜The deadline to submit your late-breaker abstract is TODAY, 17 March! easlcongress.eu/2025-abstrac...

Simultaneous liver transplant and sleeve gastrectomy provides durable weight loss, improves metabolic syndrome and reduces allograft steatosis: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40089069/ Interesting. Time for a RCT? #liversky @jhepatology.bsky.social

The March issue is now online! 👉 Read our latest articles! 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652796/2025/297/3 #sHLH #MRI #metabolicsyndrome #BreastCancer #liverdisease #lungcancer #Lithium #AATD #COVID #atrialfibrillation #obesity #personalizedmedicine

New article to read! Systolic blood pressure targets below 120 mm Hg are associated with reduced mortality. ➡️ A meta-analysis ➡️ Lower incidence of all-cause mortality ➡️ Higher incidence of adverse events 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/joim.20078 #hypertension #antihypertensives

New review to read! Current challenges in lung transplantation. ➡️ The importance of continued advancements in donor management ➡️ Organ preservation ➡️ Perioperative care to ultimately improve outcomes for lung transplant recipients 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/joim.20072

As Donald Trump turns the United States into one of the closest allies Russia has worldwide, it's worth revisiting the news item below, which came out immediately after Trump won a surprising victory in November:

Reminder that Europepmc.org exists. In case anyone should need it for any reason.

New research letter from our newest group member PhD-student Merle Roeren et al in @jhepatology.bsky.social . We use data on liver tests in patients with type 2 diabetes to examine how screening with FIB4 would play out IRL... (continued.)

New review from us led by PhD-student dr Hanne Åström - Psychosocial risks in MASLD. We discuss socioeconomic disparities, risk for depression and anxiety and quality of life studies - and much more. Check it out: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39953908/

New from us: Comparing rates of decompensation/HCC in patients with ALD and MASLD cirrhosis using register data. Quite similar! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39952814/ Thanks to first author Joost Boeckmans and the rest of the team. #liversky #MASLD #ALD @ki.se

medevents.se/events/avl-2... Webinar (in Swedish) on ammonia tests in liver disease. Should be interesting!

You Guys. This is *mesmerising*. What a speech. Worth watching in its entirety. He has his critics, but I am going to miss this articulate, intelligent leader on the world stage. Bravo 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 #Leadership

New editorial! Intercontinentally validated diagnostic criteria for secondary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis — So welcome! ➡️ #HLH may have various possible causes ➡️ Search for the underlying trigger(s) 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/joim.20066 ➡️ Commenting on: doi.org/10.1111/joim.20065

UEG is looking for 4 enthusiastic young GIs to join our Young Talent Group! Join the YTG & support the next generation of digestive health specialists in becoming experts in research and clinical practice! Learn more & apply now: https://bit.ly/3GKVuOz #weareUEG

Opportunity! We are recruiting: Professor of Environmental Epidemiology Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Modelling study suggests MASLD will cause 2.4% of all deaths in the US in 2050: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Time to act!

Patients with celiac disease face an increased risk of developing any chronic liver disease. The relative risk for autoimmune liver disease was almost five times higher. Published in Lancet Regional Health – Europe. news.ki.se/celiac-disea...

New from us: Prognosis in alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD). Out now in JIM - Journal of Internal Medicine: doi.org/10.1111/joim.... Briefly, we identified 2,286 patients with a diagnosis of AATD and compared selected outcomes to matched reference individuals from the general population.

Nice attention to the liver in the guardian: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... Would love to see more coverage in Swedish media on this as well!

Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...

The January issue is now online! Read our latest articles! 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652796...

New from us: Screening for advanced fibrosis due to MASLD in T2D - the SCANDIA study. Out now in @LancetGastroHep: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kFtR8nByr... What did we do and find? Summarized in this thread:

New paper from us: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Consequences of alcohol often come hand in hand. Here, we show that around 10% of patients with alcohol-related liver disease at some point in their lives will also be diagnosed with acute pancreatitis.

Our group will present at an #ISPOR webinar Dec 10 about #MASLD and new data related to long-term health and economic outcomes. Sign up here: www.ispor.org/conferences-...

In Journal of Internal Medicine this week: Statin-associated regulation of hepatic PNPLA3 in patients without known liver disease. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....