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Associations between metabolic hyperferritinaemia, fibrosis-promoting alleles and clinical outcomes in steatotic liver disease.
Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver - 1 Feb 2024
Suresh Deepika, Li Ashley, Miller Matthew J, Wijarnpreecha Karn, Chen Vincent L
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Ferritin has been investigated as a biomarker for liver fibrosis and iron in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). However, whether metabolic hyperferritinaemia predicts progression of liver disease remains unknown. In this study, we sought to understand associations between hyperferritinaemia and (1) adverse clinical outcomes and (2) common genetic...
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