Ethnic difference in liver fat content: A cross-sectional observation among Japanese American in Hawaii, Japanese in Japan, and non-Hispanic whites in United States

Obesity Research and Clinical Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Azuma, Koichiro ^a,g   Curb, J David ^b,c   Kadowaki, Takashi ^c,d   Edmundowicz, Daniel ^e   Kadowaki, Sayaka ^c   Masaki, Kamal H ^b   El Saed, Aiman ^d   Nishio, Yoshihiko ^c   Seto, Todd B ^f   Okamura, Tomonori ^c,g   Cetinel, Cemal ^a   Kadota, Aya ^c   Sutton Tyrrell, Kim ^d   Miura, Katsuyuki ^c   Evans, Rhobert W ^d   Takamiya, Tomoko ^d   Maegawa, Hiroshi ^c   Miljkovic, Iva ^d   Kuller, Lewis H ^d   Ueshima, Hirotsugu ^c   Kelley, David E ^a   Sekikawa, Akira ^c,d   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CRP; Environmental; Ethnicity; Fatty liver; Genetic

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FAT CONTENT; FATTY LIVER; HOMEOSTASIS MODEL ASSESSMENT OF INSULIN RESISTANCE; HUMAN; JAPAN; JAPANESE; LIPID STORAGE; LIVER FAT CONTENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84877578650     PISSN: 1871403X     EISSN: 18780318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orcp.2011.11.007     Document Type: Article

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