Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Increased Risk of 1-Year All-Cause 1 and Cardiac Hospital Readmissions in Elderly Patients Admitted for Acute 2 Heart Failure 3 4

Short title: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and hospital readmissions for heart failure 5 6 7 Filippo Valbusa, MD, Stefano Bonapace, MD, Davide Agnoletti, MD, Luca Scala, MD, Cristina 8 Grillo MD, Pietro Arduini, MD, Emanuela Turcato, MD, Alessandro Mantovani, MD, Giacomo 9 Zoppini, MD, Guido Arcaro, MD, Christopher Byrne, MB BCh, Giovanni Targher, MD 10 11 12 Division of General Medicine ‘‘Sacro Cuore’’ Hospital, Negrar (VR), Italy 13 Division of Cardiology, ‘‘Sacro Cuore’’ Hospital, Negrar (VR), Italy 14 Division of Geriatrics, ‘‘Sacro Cuore’’ Hospital, Negrar (VR), Italy 15 Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University and Azienda 16