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Parental non-alcoholic fatty liver disease increases risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in offspring.
Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver - 1 Apr 2019
Long Michelle T, Gurary Ellen B, Massaro Joseph M, Ma Jiantao, Hoffmann Udo, Chung Raymond T, Benjamin Emelia J, Loomba Rohit
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Little is known regarding the risk of hepatic steatosis (HS) among adult children of affected parents. We examined the association between parental and offspring HS in the multigenerational Framingham Heart Study, which characterized HS using computed tomography. METHODS: We performed multivariable logistic regression models adjusted for age, sex, alcohol use, and body mass index to generate...
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