Education as a predictor of liver testing behaviour: Insights from a large-scale MASLD awareness survey in India

Kanica Kaushal; Manoj Kumar Sharma; Priyanka Aggarwal; Smriti Singh; Sumridhi Gautam; Anamika Tomar; Guresh Kumar; Siddhesh Mhatre

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0335857

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Education as a predictor of liver testing behaviour: Insights from a large-scale MASLD awareness survey in India

Kanica Kaushal ,

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

* E-mail: kanicak8@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research and Epidemiology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9076-8280

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Manoj Kumar Sharma,

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

Affiliation Department of Hepatology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
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Priyanka Aggarwal,

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research and Epidemiology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India

https://orcid.org/0009-0003-0489-6713

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Smriti Singh,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research and Epidemiology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
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Sumridhi Gautam,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research and Epidemiology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
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Anamika Tomar,

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Rajasthan University of Health Sciences (RUHS) College of Medical Sciences, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
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Guresh Kumar,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Consultant Statistics, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
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Siddhesh Mhatre

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research and Epidemiology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7281-0500

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Education as a predictor of liver testing behaviour: Insights from a large-scale MASLD awareness survey in India

Kanica Kaushal,
Manoj Kumar Sharma,
Priyanka Aggarwal,
Smriti Singh,
Sumridhi Gautam,
Anamika Tomar,
Guresh Kumar,
Siddhesh Mhatre

Published: November 21, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0335857

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