Cognitive impairment in non-cirrhotic chronic liver disease is unrelated to liver disease severity but associated with ineffective baroreflex function

Gut

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1101-1103

  Frith, James ^a,b   Fattakhova, Gulnar ^a,b   Jones, David E J ^a,b   Henderson, Elsbeth ^a   Wilton, Katharine ^a   Day, Christopher P ^a,b   Newton, Julia L ^a,b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BILIRUBIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; APTITUDE TEST; ATTENTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE MUCOSA PERMEABILITY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER HISTOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; ORIENTATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; THINKING;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINES;

EID: 84861578484     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: 14683288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2011-301216     Document Type: Letter

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