The ZJU index is a powerful surrogate marker for NAFLD in severely obese North American women

• Chia-Po Fu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5210-9444

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• Hira Ali,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Vikrant P. Rachakonda,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Elizabeth A. Oczypok,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• James P. DeLany,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Translational Research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes, Florida Hospital, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

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• Erin E. Kershaw

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kershawee@upmc.edu

  Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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