Posts by Oluwafemi Balogun, MBBS, MPH
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Tobacco Use and Type 2 Diabetes Have Additive Effect on Risk of Fibrosis in Patients With MASLD
Oluwafemi Balogun, MBBS, MPH, Kathleen E. Corey, MD, MPH, MMSc, and colleagues demonstrated that smoking and underlying type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have a synergistic effect on the severity of fibrosis, nearly doubling the risk (OR, 1.88; P=0.0037) compared with nonsmokers who do not have T2DM.
Biography
Oluwafemi Balogun, MBBS, MPH, is a researcher in the Division of Gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Digestive Healthcare at Mass General
The Massachusetts General Hospital Digestive Healthcare Center is a collaborative practice of gastroenterologists, endoscopists, surgeons, radiologists, pathologists, hepatologists, oncologists and radiation oncologists dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of digestive diseases.