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Long‐term exposure to air pollution and incident non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease and cirrhosis: A cohort study

Fu-Rong Li, Jian Liao, Bin Zhu, Xia Li, Zhiyuan Cheng, C. Jin, Chun-Bao Mo, Xian-Bo Wu et al.

Liver international (Print), 2022

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Abstract

Epidemiological evidence regarding the association of air pollution with the risk of non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is limited. This study was to examine the associations of long‐term exposure to various air pollutants and overall air pollution with risk of incident NAFLD as well as cirrhosis, a major liver‐related morbidity for NAFLD.

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