Intima-media thickness and liver histology in obese children and adolescents with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 463-468

  Manco, Melania ^a   Bedogni, Giorgio ^b   Monti, Lidia ^a   Morino, Giuseppe ^a   Natali, Gianluigi ^a   Nobili, Valerio ^a  

^a BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Liver Research Center   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adiponectin; Atherosclerosis; Cardiovascular disease; Carotid artery intima media thickness; Children; Insulin resistance; Metabolic syndrome; Non alcoholic fatty liver disease; Non alcoholic steato hepatitis

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADOLESCENT; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CAROTID ARTERY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LIVER FIBROSIS; MALE; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; OBESITY; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIVER; MALE; OBESITY; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 77950034319     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2009.10.014     Document Type: Article

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