Relative Contribution of Iron Burden, HFE Mutations, and Insulin Resistance to Fibrosis in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver

Hepatology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 179-187

  Bugianesi, Elisabetta ^a,c   Manzini, Paola ^b   D'Antico, Sergio ^b   Vanni, Ester ^a   Longo, Filomena ^c   Leone, Nicola ^a   Massarenti, Paola ^b   Piga, Antonio ^c   Marchesini, Giulio ^d   Rizzetto, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b MOLINETTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; HFE PROTEIN; INSULIN; HFE PROTEIN, HUMAN; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; IRON; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENDER; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERFERRITINEMIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; IRON OVERLOAD; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; OBESITY; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; BLOOD; FATTY LIVER; GENETICS; HOSPITALIZATION; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POINT MUTATION;

ADULT; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; IRON; IRON OVERLOAD; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; POINT MUTATION; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 1442281989     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.20023     Document Type: Article

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