Jos Pablo Miramontes Gonzlez, an internal medicine specialist in Spain, adds that a one-year timeline may simply be too short to detect cardiovascular benefits, and that factors like age, existing conditions, blood pressure, and lipid profiles play a far more decisive role in long-term risk
Importantly, coexisting T2D almost doubles the rate of which NAFLD progresses to end-stage liver disease and HCC, respectively (7, 8)
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