Heritability of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and association with abnormal vascular parameters: A twin study

Liver International

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1287-1293

  Tarnoki, Adam D ^a   Tarnoki, David L ^a   Bata, Pal ^a   Littvay, Levente ^b   Osztovits, Janos ^c   Jermendy, Gyorgy ^c   Karlinger, Kinga ^a   Lannert, Agnes ^a   Preda, Istvan ^a,d   Kiss, Robert G ^a,d   Molnar, Andrea A ^a,d   Garami, Zsolt ^e   Baffy, Gyorgy ^f   Berczi, Viktor ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c BAJCSY ZSILINSZKY HOSPITAL   (Hungary)

^d State Health Center Military Hospital   (Hungary)

^e HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial stiffness; Genetics; Heritability; Intima media thickness; Steatosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; AUGMENTATION INDEX; BODY MASS; BRACHIAL ANGIOGRAPHY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUNGARY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; OSCILLOMETRY; PULSE WAVE;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR ABNORMALITIES; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNGARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; PULSATILE FLOW; RISK FACTORS; TUNICA INTIMA; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 84865173047     PISSN: 14783223     EISSN: 14783231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-3231.2012.02823.x     Document Type: Article

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