Association between cagA negative Helicobacter pylori status and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease among adults in the United States

• Seung Joo Kang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Seung Joo Kang, Hwa Jung Kim

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

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Healthcare Research Institute, Seoul National University, Hospital Healthcare System Gangnam Center, Seoul, Korea

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• Hwa Jung Kim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Seung Joo Kang, Hwa Jung Kim

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

  Affiliation Department of Clinical epidemiology and Biostatistics, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

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• Donghee Kim ,

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

  * E-mail: messmd@chol.com

  Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1919-6800

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• Aijaz Ahmed

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3609-8586

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