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1 Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California. Electronic address: pmills@ucsd.edu.
2 NAFLD Research Center, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California; Université Lyon 1, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France.
3 NAFLD Research Center, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California; Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.
1 Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California. Electronic address: pmills@ucsd.edu.
2 NAFLD Research Center, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California; Université Lyon 1, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France.
3 NAFLD Research Center, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California; Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is currently the most common chronic liver disease in developed countries.1 Patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) are considered to be at a higher risk of fibrosis progression and development to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma.
COIs. The authors report no conflicts of interest.
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