Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease of two ethnic groups in Kuwait: Comparison of prevalence and risk factors

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 56-62

  Babusik, Pavel ^a   Bilal, Maha ^a   Duris, Ivan ^b  

^a Al Rashid Hospital   (Kuwait)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Arabic ethnicity; Nonalcoholic liver steatosis; Obesity; South Asian ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARAB; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY MASS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISORDERS OF CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; ECHOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HIP CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; KUWAIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOUTH ASIAN; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARABS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; KUWAIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82955187774     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: 14230151     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000331591     Document Type: Article

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