Prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in children and relationship to metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, and waist circumference

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 142-149

  Tominaga, Kunihiko ^a,b   Fujimoto, Edward ^c   Suzuki, Keiko ^d   Hayashi, Masayuki ^e   Ichikawa, Masao ^f   Inaba, Yutaka ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Loma Linda University ^*  (Japan)

^c LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Saniku Gakuin College   (Japan)

^e FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Children; Insulin resistance; Metabolic syndrome; Non alcoholic fatty liver disease; Waist circumference

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING TEST; SEX DIFFERENCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 77249179753     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-008-0074-5     Document Type: Article

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