Liver: An alarm for the heart?

Liver International

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 891-894

  Mirbagheri, Seyed Amir ^a   Rashidi, Armin ^b   Abdi, Seifollah ^c   Saedi, Daryoush ^d   Abouzari, Mehdi ^a,e  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e NONE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Angiographic coronary artery disease; Fatty liver; Insulin resistance

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST HIP RATIO;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PILOT PROJECTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 34547913449     PISSN: 14783223     EISSN: 14783231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-3231.2007.01531.x     Document Type: Article

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