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Reply to Mantovani: “Causality between non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes”

Citation

Zaccardi F, Morrison AE, Khunti K, Davies MJ. Reply to Mantovani: “Causality between non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes”. Liver Int. 2019

Abstract

In our analysis, the overall hazard ratio for CVD comparing participants with NAFLD vs those without was 1.48 [95% confidence interval: 0.96, 2.29], which suggests a possible association yet not “statistically significant” if accepting a P‐value threshold for significance at 0.05.

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