Liver disorders in life style-related diseases : non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)
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Current solutions for obesity-related liver disorders: non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.
o besity is a worldwide epidemic with more than 1 billion overweight adults and at least 300 million obese patients [1]. According to recent statistics from the United States, 16.9% of children and adolescents aged 2–19 years were obese in 2009–2010 and 31.8% were either overweight or obese [2]. The rise in childhood obesity has been accompanied by an increase in pediatric liver diseases: 70%–8...
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عنوان ژورنال: Juntendo Medical Journal
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0022-6769,2188-2134
DOI: 10.14789/pjmj.50.347