Pitisuttithum, Panyavee
Chan, Wah Kheong
Piyachaturawat, Panida
Imajo, Kento
Nakajima, Atsushi
Seki, Yosuke
Kasama, Kazunori
Kakizaki, Satoru
Fan, Jian Gao
Song, Myeong Jun
Yoon, Seung Kew
Dan, Yock Young
Lesmana, Laurentius
Ho, Khek Yu
Goh, Khean Lee
Wong, Vincent Wai Sun
Treeprasertsuk, Sombat
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fatty Liver Research Unit, Division of Gastroenterology, Chulalongkorn University
Article History
Received: 25 July 2019
Accepted: 26 March 2020
First Online: 6 April 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics approval was obtained from each center prior to the commencement of the study. The Joint Chinese University of Hong Kong – New Territories East Cluster Clinical Research Ethics Committee, China; Medical Ethics Committee of University Malaya Medical Center, Malaysia; the Institutional Review Board of the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand; the Institutional Review Boards of Yotsuya Medical Cube and Gunma University, Japan; the Ethics Committee of Yokohama City University, Japan; Ethics Committees of Xinhua Hospital affiliated with the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China; the Ethics Review Board of the Catholic University of Korea, Korea; the National Healthcare Group Domain Specific Review, Singapore; the Medistra hospital’s local ethics committee, Indonesia approved this study. This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. As retrospective study, our center recommended to use verbal consent, verbal informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study and the institutional review board approved the use of verbal consent.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.