Is coffee or tea good for your liver?: Commentary

Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 482-483

  Kim, W Ray ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHIN; IRON; TRANSFERRIN;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; BODY MASS; CALCULATION; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COFFEE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOLLOW UP; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; IRON BINDING CAPACITY; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL RECORD; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SHORT SURVEY; TEA;

EID: 33748307356     PISSN: 17434378     EISSN: 17434386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpgasthep0558     Document Type: Short Survey

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