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. 2019 Dec;70(6):2236-2238.
doi: 10.1002/hep.30835.

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Nadim Mahmud  1 , David E Kaplan  1   2 , Tamar H Taddei  3   4 , David S Goldberg  1   5
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Nadim Mahmud et al. Hepatology. 2019 Dec.
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Additional acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF)-related analyses. (A) Relationship between body mass index (BMI) and probability of developing ACLF in 1 year,* (B) relative lead time of ACLF diagnosis for each definition, and (C) Kaplan-Meier survival curves for patients meeting different ACLF definitions. *Models are adjusted for age, etiology of liver disease, albumin, platelet count, international normalized ratio, total bilirubin, and creatinine. Abbreviations: APASL = Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver; EASL = European Association for the Study of the Liver
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