{"id":1502,"date":"2025-07-22T22:32:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slmena.org\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2025-07-22T22:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:32:17","slug":"bridging-the-gap-increasing-mena-representation-in-masld-clinical-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slmena.org\/?p=1502","title":{"rendered":"Bridging the gap: increasing MENA representation in MASLD clinical trials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41575-025-01081-9#auth-Mohamed-El_Kassas-Aff1-Aff2\">Mohamed El-Kassas<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nrgastro\"><em>Nature Reviews Gastroenterology &amp; Hepatology<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the Middle East and North Africa having the highest global burden of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, patients from this region remain markedly under-represented in the disease clinical drug trials. Addressing this gap is essential for ensuring equitable access to novel therapies and enhancing global liver health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full Article Here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41575-025-01081-9\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41575-025-01081-9<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature Reviews Gastroenterology &amp; Hepatology\u00a0 Despite the Middle East and North Africa having the highest global burden of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slmena.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slmena.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slmena.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slmena.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slmena.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slmena.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"https:\/\/slmena.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slmena.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slmena.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slmena.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}