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and poorer prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma.

Clinical significance

Patients with chronic diarrhea due to bile acid malabsorption have been shown to have reduced fasting FGF19. Surgical resection of the ileum (as often occurs in Crohn's disease) will reduce bile acid absorption and remove the stimulus for FGF19 production.

In primary bile acid diarrhea,

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