A medical practitioner is concerned that fatty liver disease may be on the rise in Barbados due the over consumption of alcohol.

Dr Thalayah Butcher-Medford revealed her concerns at a health fair organised by the Blessed Hope Seventh-day Adventist church at Husbands Gardens, St James on Sunday where she gave a talk on the disease, formally known as steatotic liver disease.

She said: “Everyone always drinking alcohol and they don’t see, they don’t seem to realize that even though it might not affect them now, it can affect them in the future when they get older as well as diabetes and the sugar and everything, as I mentioned, the liver filters everything that passes through your body, so you need to take care of that.”