Arterial stiffness in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is related to fibrosis stage and epicardial adipose tissue thickness

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 237, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 490-493

  Sunbul, Murat ^a   Agirbasli, Mehmet ^a   Durmus, Erdal ^b   Kivrak, Tarik ^c   Akin, Hakan ^a   Aydin, Yucel ^a   Ergelen, Rabia ^a   Yilmaz, Yusuf ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MERSIN STATE HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^c Sivas Numune Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Arterial stiffness; Augmentation index; Epicardial fat thickness; Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease; Pulse wave velocity

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; AUGMENTATION INDEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PULSE WAVE;

EID: 84908519068     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2014.10.004     Document Type: Article

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