Keck School of Medicine of USC Mar 9 2026 Women with certain cardiometabolic risk factors, including type 2 diabetes and high waist circumference, face a greater increase in risk for liver fibrosis than men with the same risk factors. The study, just published in  JAMA Network Open , is one of the first to explore sex differences in cardiometabolic risk factors for liver fibrosis, a condition on the rise globally. Liver fibrosis is the buildup of scar tissue in the liver due to chronic