Prevalence of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and its association with arterial stiffness in adolescents: Results from the EVA4YOU study

• Johannes Nairz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations VASCage Research Centre on Vascular Ageing and Stroke, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, Department of Pediatrics II, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, Department of Pediatrics III, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

  https://orcid.org/0009-0002-2825-4187

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• Alex Messner,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations VASCage Research Centre on Vascular Ageing and Stroke, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, Department of Pediatrics II, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1826-5130

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• Sophia Zollner-Kiechl,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations VASCage Research Centre on Vascular Ageing and Stroke, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, Department of Neurology, Hochzirl Hospital, Zirl, Tyrol, Austria

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• Bernhard Winder,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations VASCage Research Centre on Vascular Ageing and Stroke, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, Department of Vascular Surgery, Feldkirch Hospital, Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Austria

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• Christoph Hochmayr,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics II, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0415-6873

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• Julian Granna,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation VASCage Research Centre on Vascular Ageing and Stroke, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2645-5129

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• Alexander E. Egger,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Central Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics (ZIMCL), University Hospital of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

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• Andrea Griesmacher,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Central Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics (ZIMCL), University Hospital of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

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• Ralf Geiger,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics III, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

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• Michael Knoflach ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Knoflach, Ursula Kiechl-Kohlendorfer

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: michael.knoflach@i-med.ac.at (MK); ursula.kohlendorfer@i-med.ac.at (UKK)

  ¶☯ These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations VASCage Research Centre on Vascular Ageing and Stroke, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, Department of Neurology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

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• Ursula Kiechl-Kohlendorfer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Knoflach, Ursula Kiechl-Kohlendorfer

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: michael.knoflach@i-med.ac.at (MK); ursula.kohlendorfer@i-med.ac.at (UKK)

  ¶☯ These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics II, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0433-6196

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• the Early Vascular Ageing in the YOUth (EVA4YOU) Study Group

  ¶A list of additional members of the EVA4YOU study group appears in the Acknowledgments.

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