The impact of metabolic syndrome severity on racial and ethnic disparities in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease

• Mohamed I. Elsaid ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Mohamed.elsaid@osumc.edu

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Center for Biostatistics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7963-2438

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• John F. P. Bridges,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Khalid Mumtaz,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, & Nutrition, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Na Li,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, & Nutrition, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Lindsay Sobotka,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, & Nutrition, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Vinod K. Rustgi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ VKR and EDP are co-senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Center for Liver Diseases and Masses, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Electra D. Paskett

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ VKR and EDP are co-senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Division of Population Sciences, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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