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Comment
. 2021 Feb;74(2):482-484.
doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2020.09.006. Epub 2020 Nov 19.

NAFLD is a predictor of liver injury in COVID-19 hospitalized patients but not of mortality, disease severity on the presentation or progression - The debate continues

Kamran Mushtaq  1 , Muhammad Umair Khan  2 , Fatima Iqbal  3 , Deema Hussam Alsoub  4 , Hammad Shabir Chaudhry  4 , Fateen Ata  4 , Phool Iqbal  4 , Khaled Elfert  5 , Girisha Balaraju  5 , Muna Almaslamani  6 , Khalid Al-Ejji  5 , Saad AlKaabi  5 , Yasser Medhat Kamel  5
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NAFLD is a predictor of liver injury in COVID-19 hospitalized patients but not of mortality, disease severity on the presentation or progression - The debate continues

Kamran Mushtaq et al. J Hepatol. 2021 Feb.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; Fatty liver; Liver injury; MAFLD; Mortality; NAFLD.

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