Cardiovascular phenotype of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: Hanging the paradigm about the role of distant toxic fat accumulation on vascular disease

Hepatology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1185-1186

  Sookoian, Silvia ^a,b   Castaño, Gustavo O ^b   Pirola, Carlos J ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS ALFREDO LANARI   (Argentina)

^b Hospital General de Agudos Dr Abel Zubizarreta   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; LETTER; LIPID STORAGE; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; OBESITY; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84865563631     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.25785     Document Type: Letter

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