Non-Hispanic Black Persons With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Have Lower Rates of Advanced Fibrosis, Cirrhosis, and Liver-Related Events Even After Controlling for Clinical Risk Factors and PNPLA3 Genotype.

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INTRODUCTION: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is less frequent in non-Hispanic persons (NHB), but there are knowledge gaps in our understanding of disease severity and outcomes of NAFLD in NHB. We compared liver histology and clinical outcomes of NAFLD in non-Hispanic Black persons (NHB) and non-Hispanic White persons (NHW). METHODS: We compared liver histology and outcomes of 109 NHB and 1,910 NHW...

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