| NAFLD | Inclusion criteria | No alcohol history or consuming of alcohol < 210 g/week for male and < 140 g/week for female | Ultrasound, CT, MRI, or liver biopsy prompted fatty liver |
| NAFLD | Exclusion criteria | Viral hepatitis, drug-induced hepatitis, alcoholic fatty liver, autoimmune liver disease, liver degeneration | Diagnosis of cirrhosis by ultrasound, CT, MRI, or liver biopsy pathology; neoplasm in liver or other organs | With myocardial ischemia, hepatorenal syndrome, diabetes, infections, intestinal ischemia, cerebrovascular accident | Albumin infusion within a month |
| Hepatitis | Inclusion criteria | Viral hepatitis over six months | HBsAg and/or HBeAg positive | Ultrasound, CT, MRI, or liver biopsy prompted no liver cirrhosis; AST, ALT < 40 U/L |
| Hepatitis | Exclusion criteria | Neoplasm in liver or other organs | With myocardial ischemia, hepatorenal syndrome, diabetes, infections, intestinal ischemia, cerebrovascular accident | Albumin infusion within a month |
| Cirrhosis | Inclusion criteria | Diagnosis of cirrhosis by ultrasound, CT, MRI, liver biopsy pathology, or operation |
| Cirrhosis | Exclusion criteria | Neoplasm in liver or other organs | With myocardial ischemia, hepatorenal syndrome, diabetes, infections, intestinal ischemia, cerebrovascular accident | Alcoholic, nonalcoholic, drug-induced, primary biliary cirrhosis, and unexplained hepatic cirrhosis albumin infusion within a month |
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