Descriptive baseline clinical features of study patients.

BMI, body mass index; ALT, alanine transaminase; AST, aspartate transaminase; GGT, gamma-glutamyl transferase; ×ULN, factor times upper limit of normal used in our center for males and females: 41 and 31 U/L for ALT, 37 and 31 for AST, and 85 and 50 for GGT, respectively. Data is presented as mean ± SD for variables following a Normal distribution and as median (range) for the rest.