Fatty liver predicts the risk for cardiovascular events in middle-aged population: a population-based cohort study
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Fatty liver predicts the risk for cardiovascular events in middle-aged population: a population-based cohort study
OBJECTIVE We investigated if the differences in liver fat content would predict the development of non-fatal and fatal atherosclerotic endpoints (coronary heart disease and stroke). DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Our study group is a population-based, randomly recruited cohort (Oulu Project Elucidating Risk of Atherosclerosis, OPERA), initiated in 1991. The cohort consisted of 988 middle-ag...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ Open
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2044-6055,2044-6055
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-004973