Perinatal programming of adolescent nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: A case for gender inequality?

Hepatology

Department of Medicine, VA Boston Healthcare System and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Published: January 2018

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