Food intake increases liver stiffness measurements and hampers reliable values in patients with chronic hepatitis B and healthy controls: The PROLIFICA experience in the Gambia

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 188-196

  Lemoine, M ^a,b   Shimakawa, Y ^a,c   Njie, R ^a   Njai, H F ^a   Nayagam, S ^b   Khalil, M ^c   Goldin, R ^b,d   Ingiliz, P ^e   Taal, M ^f   Nyan, O ^d   Corrah, T ^a   D'Alessandro, U ^a   Thursz, M ^b  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital Gambia   (Gambia)

^e Medical Center for Infectious Diseases   (Germany)

^f MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE   (Gambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GAMBIA; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER STIFFNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY;

ADULT; EATING; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84890547077     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: 13652036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/apt.12561     Document Type: Article

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