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Atherogenic index of plasma combined with waist circumference and body mass index to predict metabolic-associated fatty liver disease
Shao-Jie Duan, Zhi-Ying Ren, Tao Zheng, Hong-Ye Peng, Zuo-Hu Niu, Hui Xia, Jia-Liang Chen, Yuan-Chen Zhou, Rong-Rui Wang, Shu-Kun Yao
Shao-Jie Duan, Zhi-Ying Ren, Tao Zheng, Hong-Ye Peng, Zuo-Hu Niu, Hui Xia, Rong-Rui Wang, Graduate School, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China
Jia-Liang Chen, Center of Integrative Medicine, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100015, China
Yuan-Chen Zhou, Graduate school, Peking University China-Japan Friendship School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing 100029, China
Shu-Kun Yao, Department of Gastroenterology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing 100029, China
Author contributions: Duan SJ designed and performed the study, analyzed the data, and drafted the manuscript; Ren ZY, Zheng T, Peng HY, Niu ZH, and Wang RR collected the samples and clinical data of the patients; Xia H, Chen JL, and Zhou YC took part in designing the study and analyzing the data; Yao SK designed the study, supervised the study performance, and revised the manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: This study was approved by the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of China-Japan Friendship Hospital (2018-110-K79-1).
Informed consent statement: All study participants provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement checklist of items.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Shu-Kun Yao, MD, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, No. 2 Yinghua East Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100029, China. shukunyao@126.com
Received: June 26, 2022
Peer-review started: June 26, 2022
First decision: August 1, 2022
Revised: August 9, 2022
Accepted: September 8, 2022
Article in press: September 8, 2022
Published online: September 28, 2022