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ArticleInternational journal of surgery (London, England)2026

Letter to the editor regarding "L-shaped association of selenium in blood metals mixtures with the incidence of liver fibrosis/cirrhosis: NHANES 2017-2020".

Junze Dai, Xudong Zhu, Yefu Liu

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Article in International journal of surgery (London, England), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Junze DaiGraduate School, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China.
Xudong ZhuDepartment of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Cancer Hospital of Dalian University of Technology, Cancer Hospital of China Medical University, Liaoning Cancer Hospital & Institute, Shenyang, Liaoning, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6657-6112
Yefu LiuDepartment of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Cancer Hospital of Dalian University of Technology, Cancer Hospital of China Medical University, Liaoning Cancer Hospital & Institute, Shenyang, Liaoning, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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