Journal article
Adiposity in relation to risks of fatty liver, cirrhosis and liver cancer: a prospective study of 0.5 million Chinese adults
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Adiposity is an increasing public health problem in China. We aimed to examine the associations of adiposity with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and other chronic liver diseases in Chinese adults. The prospective China Kadoorie Biobank recruited 512,891 adults aged 30–79 years from 10 areas. During 10 years of follow-up, 7,386 incident liver disease cases were recorded among 503,991 participants without prior cancer or chronic liver disease at baseline. The mean body mass index (BM...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
+ National Institute for Health Research
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Funding agency for:
Holmes, M
Grant:
FS/18/23/33512
+ British Heart Foundation
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Funding agency for:
Bragg, F
Holmes, M
Grant:
FS/18/23/33512
Kadoorie Charitable Foundation
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Scientific Reports Journal website
- Volume:
- 9
- Issue:
- *5*
- Article number:
- 785
- Publication date:
- 2019-01-28
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-11-23
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2045-2322
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:950513
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uuid:41c84872-81f9-4b5c-b10b-a63d04dc7ff0
- Local pid:
- pubs:950513
- Deposit date:
- 2018-12-05
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- Copyright holder:
- Pang, et al
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Notes:
- Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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