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Comment
. 2021 Apr;70(4):807-809.
doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2020-322072. Epub 2020 Jul 15.

Involvement of liver in COVID-19: systematic review and meta-analysis

Dipesh Kumar Yadav  1   2   3   4 , Akanand Singh  5 , Qi Zhang  1   2   3   4 , Xueli Bai  1   2   3   4 , Wei Zhang  1   4 , Rajesh Kumar Yadav  6 , Alina Singh  7 , Li Zhiwei  1   4 , Vishnu Prasad Adhikari  1   4 , Tingbo Liang  8   2   3   4
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Involvement of liver in COVID-19: systematic review and meta-analysis

Dipesh Kumar Yadav et al. Gut. 2021 Apr.
No abstract available

Keywords: hepatitis; liver; liver function test.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1
Forest plot for the pooled prevalence of liver injury in patients with COVID-19. Ev/Trt, events/treated.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Forest plot for the prognosis of patients with COVID-19 with liver injury. (A) Severity. (B) Mortality.
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