Racial and ethnic distribution of nonalcoholic fatty liver... : Hepatology (original) (raw)

Liver Disease

Racial and ethnic distribution of nonalcoholic fatty liver in persons with newly diagnosed chronic liver disease†

Weston, Shiobhan R.1; Leyden, Wendy3; Murphy, Rose3; Bass, Nathan M.1; Bell, Beth P.4; Manos, M. Michele2,3; Terrault, Norah A.*,1,‡

1Departments of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

2Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

3Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA

4Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

S357, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143‐0538===

Received July 24, 2004

Accepted November 09, 2004