( 14 ) included nine studies from 33 Asian populations with a total of 20,595 children up to April 2021, and found that the overall prevalence of pediatric NAFLD was 5.53% (95% CI: 3.46–8.72%) with an increasing trend in the last decade, and 36.64% (95% CI: 27.99–46.26%) of children with ultrasound-based NAFLD had elevated serum ALT levels.
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