Body mass index in Japanese patients with autoimmune liver disease: Overweight patients with primary biliary cirrhosis tend to be asymptomatic

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 54, Issue 78, 2007, Pages 1758-1760

  Kanda, Tatsuo ^a   Yokosuka, Osamu ^a   Imazeki, Fumio ^a   Hirasawa, Yuichi ^a   Ikeuchi, Tetsu ^a   Mikata, Rintaro ^a   Kai, Yu Zhang ^a   Kurihara, Tomoko ^a   Arai, Makoto ^a   Fukai, Kenichi ^a   Saisho, Hiromitsu ^a   Mikami, Shigeru ^b   Azemoto, Ryosaku ^c   Ito, Yoshimi ^d  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kikkoman General Hospital   (Japan)

^c Chiba Cardiovascular Center   (Japan)

^d Yoshimi Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune hepatitis; Overweight; Primary biliary cirrhosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; BODY MASS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BIOPSY; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERWEIGHT;

EID: 35948974748     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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