Alcohol consumption is inversely correlated with insulin resistance, independent of metabolic syndrome factors and fatty liver diseases

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 808-813

  Gunji, Toshiaki ^a   Matsuhashi, Nobuyuki ^b   Sato, Hajime ^c   Iijima, Kimiko ^a   Fujibayashi, Kazutoshi ^a   Okumura, Mitsue ^a   Sasabe, Noriko ^a   Urabe, Akio ^a  

^a Center for Preventive Medicine   (Japan)

^b Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation Medical Center Tokyo   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

alcohol consumption; fatty liver; insulin resistance; metabolic syndrome X

Indexed keywords

LIVER ENZYME;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HOMEOSTASIS MODEL ASSESSMENT OF INSULIN RESISTANCE SCORE; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; JAPAN; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052931782     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: 15392031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0b013e318223bd53     Document Type: Article

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