Reviewer's report
Title:Long term follow-up and liver-related death rate in patients with
non-alcoholic and alcoholic related fatty liver disease
Version:1Date:21 July 2014
Reviewer: Jeremy Cobbold
Reviewer's report:
The authors have made substantial revisions to the text which have addressed
the major comments from my review of an earlier version (6 June 2014).
Minor essential revisions:
Methods; Histological classification: I understand from the new text that the
biopsies were each reviewed retrospectively by one of three pathologists. Was
there any second review to examine inter-observer variability?
Results; Survival and mortality: please include the range for median survival
quoted.
Discussion; para4: I do not understand what is meant by the phrase starting "we
realise... portal tracts". Please could this be rephrased and explained, or omitted.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
Reviewer's report
Title:Long term follow-up and liver-related death rate in patients with
non-alcoholic and alcoholic related fatty liver disease
Version:1Date:21 July 2014
Reviewer: Jeremy Cobbold
Reviewer's report:
The authors have made substantial revisions to the text which have addressed
the major comments from my review of an earlier version (6 June 2014).
Minor essential revisions:
Methods; Histological classification: I understand from the new text that the
biopsies were each reviewed retrospectively by one of three pathologists. Was
there any second review to examine inter-observer variability?
Results; Survival and mortality: please include the range for median survival
quoted.
Discussion; para4: I do not understand what is meant by the phrase starting "we
realise... portal tracts". Please could this be rephrased and explained, or omitted.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
Please review this paper.
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Reviewer's report
Title:Long term follow-up and liver-related death rate in patients with
non-alcoholic and alcoholic related fatty liver disease
Version:1Date:21 July 2014
Reviewer: Jeremy Cobbold
Reviewer's report:
The authors have made substantial revisions to the text which have addressed
the major comments from my review of an earlier version (6 June 2014).
Minor essential revisions:
Methods; Histological classification: I understand from the new text that the
biopsies were each reviewed retrospectively by one of three pathologists. Was
there any second review to examine inter-observer variability?
Results; Survival and mortality: please include the range for median survival
quoted.
Discussion; para4: I do not understand what is meant by the phrase starting "we
realise... portal tracts". Please could this be rephrased and explained, or omitted.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
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