Elevated Alanine Aminotransferase Is Strongly Associated with Incident Metabolic Syndrome: A Meta-Analysis of Prospective Studies

• Zhengtao Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhengtao Liu, Shuping Que, Tao Peng

  Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Province, China

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• Shuping Que ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhengtao Liu, Shuping Que, Tao Peng

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Women and children’s hospital of Guangxi, Nanning, Guangxi Province, China, Department of Pediatrics, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Province, China

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• Huaijun Ning,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Women and children’s hospital of Guangxi, Nanning, Guangxi Province, China

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• Linlin Wang,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Province, China

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• Tao Peng

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhengtao Liu, Shuping Que, Tao Peng

  * E-mail: pengtaocn@hotmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Province, China

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