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The aim of this study was to explore the protective role of EVOO on NAFLD conditions, stratified by gender. Methods: The study cohort included 1426 participants assessed in the second recall of the NUTRIHEP cohort (2014\u20132018), subdivided by gender and dividing the EVOO intake into quartiles of daily gram intake. Results: The results indicated a protective role of the last quartile of EVOO only for female subjects, OR = 0.43, p = 0.02, 0.21 to 0.85 at 95% C.I., whereas in the male sub-cohort, the effect was not statistically significant. Conclusions: The protective role of EVOO is different between genders. 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