%0 Journal Article %A Ampuero, Javier %A Romero Gómez, Manuel %T COVID-19 and the liver: the chicken or the egg dilemma. %D 2021 %@ 1130-0108 %U http://hdl.handle.net/10668/17144 %X After the publication of our meta-analysis, in which we demonstrated that aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and total bilirubin were related to a poor prognosis in patients suffering COVID-19, some authors raised the question about whether these findings are directly linked, or they are epiphenomena. %~