Fibrosis-4 and 3 indices are independently associated with annual hemoglobin decline in individuals with metabolic disorders: A hospital-based retrospective cohort study

• Taiki Hori,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Anan Medical Center, Tokushima, Japan, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokushima Prefectural Kaifu Hospital, Tokushima, Japan, Department of Hematology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4418-3865

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• Ken-ichi Aihara,

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

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine and Medical Science, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima, Japan

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• Yutaka Kawano,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine and Medical Science, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2256-0776

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• Takeshi Watanabe,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4532-0556

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• Yousuke Kaneko,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Anan Medical Center, Tokushima, Japan, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokushima Prefectural Kaifu Hospital, Tokushima, Japan

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• Saki Kawata,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Anan Medical Center, Tokushima, Japan, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokushima Prefectural Kaifu Hospital, Tokushima, Japan

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• Kazuma Shimizu,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Tokushima Prefectural Kaifu Hospital, Tokushima, Japan

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• Minae Hosoki,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Anan Medical Center, Tokushima, Japan, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokushima Prefectural Kaifu Hospital, Tokushima, Japan

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• Kensuke Mori,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Anan Medical Center, Tokushima, Japan, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokushima Prefectural Kaifu Hospital, Tokushima, Japan

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• Toshiki Otoda,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations Department of Hematology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima, Japan, Department of Community Medicine and Medical Science, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima, Japan, Division of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tomoyuki Yuasa,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine and Medical Science, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima, Japan

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• Ken-ichi Matsuoka,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Hematology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima, Japan

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• Shingen Nakamura

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: shingen@tokushima-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine and Medical Science, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5465-2758

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