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Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School; and, Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: kstaller@mgh.harvard.edu.

Editorial

Kelly L Buchanan et al. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2023 Apr.

. 2023 Apr;21(4):902-906.

doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2022.06.036. Epub 2022 Aug 30.

¹ Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School; and, Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: kstaller@mgh.harvard.edu.

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