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Epidemiology of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in non-obese populations: Meta-analytic assessment of its prevalence, genetic, metabolic, and histological profiles.
Journal of digestive diseases - 1 Jul 2020
Zou Zi Yuan, Wong Vincent Wai-Sun, Fan Jian Gao
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OBJECTIVE: As a subgroup of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), patients with non-obese NAFLD may also have an increased risk of adverse hepatic and metabolic outcomes. We aimed to estimate the prevalence and incidence of non-obese NAFLD and to describe its clinical characteristics in this systematic review and meta-analysis. METHODS: We performed a systematic search of 1235 citations published up to Mar...
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