Prevalence and characteristics of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis among pediatric patients in the MarketScan Databases

• Kennedy M. Peter-Marske,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America,, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7085-7072

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• Xiao Zhang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xiao.zhang6@merck.com

  Affiliation Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Tongtong Wang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Xinyue Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Gail Fernandes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Samuel S. Engel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Ravi Shankar

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America

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