The Global, Regional, and National Burden and Trends of NAFLD in 204 Countries and Territories: An Analysis From Global Burden of Disease 2019

Huilong Chen   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Yuan Zhan   ^{2 *} , MD ;   Jinxiang Zhang   ³ , MD ;   Sheng Cheng   ⁴ , MD ;   Yuhao Zhou   ² , MD ;   Liyuan Chen   ⁵ , MD ;   Zhilin Zeng   ¹ , PhD

¹ Department and Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

² Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, National Clinical Research Center of Respiratory Disease, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

³ Department of Spine Surgery, The Second Hospital affiliated to Guangdong Medical University, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, China

⁴ Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, University-Town Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

⁵ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wuhan No1 Hospital, Wuhan, China

*these authors contributed equally