Relations Between Carotid Artery Wall Thickness and Liver Histology in Subjects With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
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Associations between liver histology and carotid intima-media thickness in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Patients With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease To the Editor: NAFLD is a clinicopathological syndrome that is closely associated with visceral obesity, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes, thus suggesting that NAFLD is another feature of the metabolic syndrome (MetS).1 Recent cross-sectional studies2–4 have shown that NAFLD is associated with ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Diabetes Care
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0149-5992,1935-5548
DOI: 10.2337/dc06-0135