Fibrosis stage is the strongest predictor for disease-specific mortality in NAFLD after up to 33 years of follow-up

Hepatology

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1547-1554

  Ekstedt, Mattias ^a   Hagström, Hannes ^b   Nasr, Patrik ^a   Fredrikson, Mats ^a   Stål, Per ^b   Kechagias, Stergios ^a   Hultcrantz, Rolf ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER HISTOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; COMPLICATION; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME;

COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84928209634     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.27368     Document Type: Article

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