The relationship between smoking cessation history and significant liver fibrosis among the population with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease in the United States

• Zhongtao Li,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of General Surgery (Wenhua Road Campus), The Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China, Institute of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Intestinal Diseases, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China

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• Hao Guo,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliations Department of General Surgery (Wenhua Road Campus), The Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China, Institute of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Intestinal Diseases, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China

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• Hongyu He,

  Roles Software

  Affiliations Department of General Surgery (Wenhua Road Campus), The Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China, Institute of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Intestinal Diseases, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China

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• Shu Wang,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Urology Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China

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• Shufen Pei,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

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• Liang Xie

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: scuxl@foxmail.com

  Affiliations Department of General Surgery (Wenhua Road Campus), The Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China, Institute of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Intestinal Diseases, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7957-364X

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