Hormone replacement therapy in menopausal women: Risk factor or protection to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease?

Annals of Hepatology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 147-149

  Florentino, Gesira ^a   Cotrim, Helma P ^a   Florentino, André ^b   Padilha, Consuelo ^a   Medeiros Neto, Manoel ^b   Bragagnoli, Gerson ^c   Schwingel, Paulo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Campina Grande   (Brazil)

^c Universidade Federal da Campina Grande   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; FATTY LIVER; HEPATITIS C; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER PROTECTION; MENOPAUSE; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; OBESITY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 83055197017     PISSN: 16652681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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