Conditions such as type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease, and insulin resistance increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic lung disease, and kidney disease by approximately 50%.

“um but of course all along the way you have conditions like fatty liver disease and insulin resistance and all of these conditions form a continuum and the most important thing to know about them is while not that many people will die directly from those diseases if you have anything along that continuum it's increasing your risk of about by about 50% of the other three horsemen so we we really want to think about a strategy at mitigating all four of these conditions and delaying them as long as possible”