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Salt intake and the risk of NAFLD and NASH: A prospective cohort and Mendelian randomization study
2025-05-28
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<h4>Background: </h4> While excess salt intake is known to affect cardiovascular health, its role in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is less established. We aimed to examine the longitudinal association between salt intake and incident NAFLD/NASH. Methods and findings This study included 494,170 UK Biobank participants without NAFLD/NASH at baseline. Salt exposure w...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 07a2c5ab-6a38-5ebe-826d-f3860c9f8f32
- DOI
- 10.1101/2025.05.27.25328391
