This oversight may have contributed to a misconception that smoking, in itself, is not a primary causative agent in chronic liver disease [2]
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Histological analyses of liver tissue provide some of the most convincing evidence for the link between smoking and MASLD progression
10.1038/srep43029 Summary Keywords betel quid, Areca catachu , liver fibrosis (LF), metabolic syndrome, hepatotoxicity Citation Chou Y-T, Sun Z-J, Shen W-C, Yang Y-C, Lu F-H, Chang C-J, Li C-Y and Wu J-S (2022) Cumulative Betel Quid Chewing and the Risk of Significant Liver Fibrosis in Subjects With and Without Metabolic Syndrome
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The synergistic interaction between smoking and other metabolic risk factors, such as hypertension and dyslipidemia, further exacerbates cardiovascular disease risk, a major cause of mortality in patients with MASLD