Evaluation of Risk Factors assosiated with Fatty Liver Disease in Obese Children and Adolescents: A Single Center Experience
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Fatty liver disease in obese children in Kashan, Iran
Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is increasingly a common disease which is created by the accumulation of fat in the liver. About 20% of adults and 5% of children suffer from this disease. In some studies, half of obese children had fatty liver disease and approximately 90% of the patients with fatty liver were obese. The aim of this study was to evaluate fatty liver diseas...
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عنوان ژورنال: Van Medical Journal
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2587-0351,2587-0351
DOI: 10.5505/vtd.2021.69862