Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in a rural, physically active, low income population in Sri Lanka

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Pinidiyapathirage, M ^a   Dassanayake, Anuradha S ^a   Rajindrajith, Shaman ^a   Kalubowila, Udaya ^a   Kato, Norihiro ^b   Wickremasinghe, A ^a   De Silva, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

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EID: 82055175787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-4-513     Document Type: Article

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