Circulating progranulin level is associated with visceral fat and elevated liver enzymes: Significance of serum progranulin as a useful marker for liver dysfunction

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1191-1196

  Tanaka, Yuko ^a   Takahashi, Tetsuya ^a   Tamori, Yoshikazu ^a,b  

^a Chibune General Hospital   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Insulin resistance; Liver dysfunction; Metabolic syndrome; Progranulin; Visceral fat

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FATTY ACID; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PROGRANULIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GRN PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BODY MASS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ABDOMINAL FAT; AGED; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; JAPAN; LIVER; MIDDLE AGED; NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE; OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERY ELDERLY;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADIPOSITY; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; JAPAN; LIVER; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84919784381     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: 13484540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.EJ14-0210     Document Type: Article

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