Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease associated with obesity: features ursodeoxycholic acid
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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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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Medical Council
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2658-5790,2079-701X
DOI: 10.21518/2079-701x-2019-6-86-94