Demographic and clinicopathological characteristics of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in the East-Southeastern Anatolia regions in Turkey

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 62-68

  Bahcecioglu, Ibrahim Halil ^a   Koruk, Mehmet ^b   Yilmaz, Omer ^c   Bolukbas, Cengiz ^d   Bolukbas, Fusun ^d   Tuncer, Ilyas ^e   Ataseven, Huseyin ^a   Yalcin, Kendal ^f   Ozercan, Ibrahim H ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fibrosis; Histopathology; Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; OBESITY; RISK FACTOR; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; DEMOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TURKEY;

EID: 29044436244     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000089388     Document Type: Article

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