Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and risk of incident cardiovascular disease: A meta-analysis

There have been many studies of the effects of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), but these have produced conflicting results. We performed a meta-analysis of these studies to quantify the magnitude of the association between NAFLD (and NAFLD severity) and risk of CVD events.We searched PubMed, Google scholar, and Web of Science databases using terms "NAFLD", "cardiovascular events",...