Breastfeeding to Prevent NAFLD

George Boon-Bee Goh^{1

2}, Wah Kheong Chan³, Vincent Wai-Sun Wong^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
² Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore.
³ Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
⁴ Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
⁵ State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Editorial

George Boon-Bee Goh et al. Hepatology. 2021 Dec.

. 2021 Dec;74(6):2939-2941.

doi: 10.1002/hep.32095. Epub 2021 Sep 27.

George Boon-Bee Goh^{1

2}, Wah Kheong Chan³, Vincent Wai-Sun Wong^{4

5}

¹ Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
² Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore.
³ Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
⁴ Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
⁵ State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

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Comment on

The Association Between Breastfeeding and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Parous Women: A Nation-wide Cohort Study.
Park Y, Sinn DH, Oh JH, Goh MJ, Kim K, Kang W, Paik YH, Choi MS, Lee JH, Koh KC, Paik SW, Gwak GY. Park Y, et al. Hepatology. 2021 Dec;74(6):2988-2997. doi: 10.1002/hep.32034. Epub 2021 Jul 26. Hepatology. 2021. PMID: 34192367

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