Evaluation and management of obesity-related nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
โ Scribed by Nugent, Clare; Younossi, Zobair M
- Book ID
- 115474353
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 335 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1743-4378
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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is among the most common causes of chronic liver disease in the western world. It is now recognized that these patients have myriad of important co-morbidities (e.g., diabetes, hypothyroidism and metabolic syndrome). The workup of patients with suspected NAFL
## Objective: This study examines the impact of biliopancreatic diversion, a malabsorptive variant of gastric bypass, on liver histology. ## Methods: Liver samples were collected from 689 severely obese (bmi 47 +/- 9 kg m(2)) patients undergoing biliopancreatic diversion. exclusion criteria inclu