Discrimination of individuals in a general population at high-risk for alcoholic and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease based on liver stiffness: A cross section study

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Baba, Masaru ^a   Furuya, Ken ^a   Bandou, Hideaki ^a   Kasai, Kenji ^a   Sadaoka, Kuniaki ^a  

^a Hokkaido Social Insurance Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LIVER EXAMINATION; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER STIFFNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; POPULATION RESEARCH; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ELASTOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FATTY LIVER; FATTY LIVER, ALCOHOLIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79958266851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-11-70     Document Type: Article

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