Reply to the ‘Comment on “Circulating fatty acids and risk of severe non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in the UK biobank: a prospective cohort of 116 223 individuals”’ by Zhitao Chen, Yangjun Gu, Shusen Zheng, and Qiyong Li, <i>Food & Function</i
This reply addresses conflicting findings between our cohort study and Chen et al.'s Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis. Methodological differences—particularly our focus on clinically severe NAFLD cases and gene-environment interactions—explain the divergence.
Authors
- Jingjing Jiao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4167-1567)
- Yu Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1025-906X)
- Pan Zhuang
Institutions
- Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University (CN)
- First Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University (CN)
- Zhejiang University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Food & Function
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1039/d5fo01025j
- Primary Topic
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China