Prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in four different weight related patient groups: Association with small bowel length and risk factors Obesity

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Hillenbrand, Andreas ^a   Kiebler, Brigitte ^a   Schwab, Cornelia ^a   Scheja, Ludger ^b   Xu, Pengfei ^a   Henne Bruns, Doris ^a   Wolf, Anna Maria ^a   Knippschild, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Morbidly obese; NASH; Non alcoholic fatty liver disease; Small bowel length

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE; OBESITY, MORBID; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMALL INTESTINE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE; OBESITY, MORBID; ORGAN SIZE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84938547744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13104-015-1224-7     Document Type: Article

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