About the Authors

Núria Fabrellas

Contributed equally to this work with: Núria Fabrellas, Rosario Hernández

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Rosario Hernández

Contributed equally to this work with: Núria Fabrellas, Rosario Hernández

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre d’Assistència Primària La Marina, Institut Catalá de la Salut (ICS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Isabel Graupera

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Liver Unit, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Elsa Solà

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Liver Unit, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Pilar Ramos

Roles Data curation, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Liver Unit, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Natividad Martín

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Centre d’Assistència Primària La Marina, Institut Catalá de la Salut (ICS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Gemma Sáez

Roles Resources, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centre d’Assistència Primària La Marina, Institut Catalá de la Salut (ICS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Consuelo Simón

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Centre d’Assistència Primària La Marina, Institut Catalá de la Salut (ICS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Almudena Pérez

Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Centre d’Assistència Primària La Marina, Institut Catalá de la Salut (ICS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Teresa Graell

Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Centre d’Assistència Primària La Marina, Institut Catalá de la Salut (ICS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Andrea Larrañaga

Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Centre d’Assistència Primària La Marina, Institut Catalá de la Salut (ICS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Manel Garcia

Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Centre d’Assistència Primària La Marina, Institut Catalá de la Salut (ICS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Ana de la Arada

Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Centre d’Assistència Primària La Marina, Institut Catalá de la Salut (ICS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Adrià Juanola

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Liver Unit, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Alicia Coiduras

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre d’Assistència Primària La Marina, Institut Catalá de la Salut (ICS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Isabel Duaso

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre d’Assistència Primària La Marina, Institut Catalá de la Salut (ICS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Angel Casado

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre d’Assistència Primària La Marina, Institut Catalá de la Salut (ICS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Julian Martin

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre d’Assistència Primària La Marina, Institut Catalá de la Salut (ICS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Marta Ginès

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centre d’Assistència Primària La Marina, Institut Catalá de la Salut (ICS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Nuria Moreno

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre d’Assistència Primària La Marina, Institut Catalá de la Salut (ICS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Ana Gema Perez

Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre d’Assistència Primària La Marina, Institut Catalá de la Salut (ICS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Laia Marti

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre d’Assistència Primària La Marina, Institut Catalá de la Salut (ICS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Mireia Bernat

Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre d’Assistència Primària La Marina, Institut Catalá de la Salut (ICS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Montse Sola

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre d’Assistència Primària La Marina, Institut Catalá de la Salut (ICS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Carmina Olivé

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Cristina Solé

Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliations Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Liver Unit, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Pere Ginès

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

pgines@clinic.cat

Affiliations Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Liver Unit, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Competing Interests

Pere Ginès declares he has received research funding from Grifols S.A, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Sequana. He has consulted for Mallinckrodt, Intercept, Sequana, Ferring and Grifols. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. No other authors have any competing interests.