Association between nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and incident diabetes mellitus among Japanese: a retrospective cohort study using propensity score matching

Association between nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and incident diabetes mellitus among Japanese: a retrospective cohort study using propensity score matching

Abstract Background Previous studies have demonstrated that nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a significant risk factor for diabetes mellitus (DM). However, these studies did not completely determine the relationship between NAFLD and DM due to unbalanced confounding factors. The propensit...

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Main Authors: Xiaodan Zheng, Changchun Cao, Yongcheng He, Xinyu Wang, Jun Wu, Haofei Hu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-06-01
Series:Lipids in Health and Disease
Subjects:
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Diabetes mellitus
Propensity-score matching
Inverse probability of treatment weights
Cox proportional hazards regression
Sensitivity analysis
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12944-021-01485-x

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