Reply to: "Heavy daily alcohol intake at the population level predicts the weight of alcohol in cirrhosis burden worldwide: Methodological issues of confounding and prediction models"
J Hepatol. 2017 Apr;66(4):865.
doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2016.12.023.
Epub 2016 Dec 30.
1 Vall d'Hebron Institut de Recerca, Barcelona, Spain.
2 Vall d'Hebron Institut de Recerca, Barcelona, Spain; Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.
3 Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
4 Cirrhosis Care Clinic, Liver Unit, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, CEGIIR, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
5 Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Division of Biochemistry, Department of Nutrition, University of Nory Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Electronic address: bataller@med.unc.edu.