A Cohort Study of Serum Bilirubin Levels and Incident Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Middle Aged Korean Workers

• Yoosoo Chang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yoosoo Chang, Seungho Ryu

  Affiliations Department of Occupational Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital and Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Health Screening Center, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital and Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

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• Seungho Ryu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yoosoo Chang, Seungho Ryu

  Affiliations Department of Occupational Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital and Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, Health Screening Center, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital and Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

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• Yiyi Zhang,

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Medicine and Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Hee Jung Son,

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Samsung Medical Center and Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

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• Jang-Young Kim,

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Wonju, South Korea, Institute of Genomic Cohort, Yonsei University, Wonju, South Korea

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• Juhee Cho,

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Medicine and Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Samsung Comprehensive Cancer Center, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea

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• Eliseo Guallar

  * E-mail: eguallar@jhsph.edu

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Medicine and Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Area of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Population Genetics, National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), Madrid, Spain

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