Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Is Associated With Atherosclerosis in Middle-Aged and Elderly Chinese

OBJECTIVE—To evaluate the associations between nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and atherosclerosis. METHODS AND RESULTS—A total of 8632 participants aged ≥40 years from Jiading district, Shanghai, were included in the present study. The presence of NAFLD was evaluated by ultrasonography. Ca...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology thrombosis, and vascular biology, 2012-09, Vol.32 (9), p.2321-2326
Hauptverfasser:	Huang, Yun, Bi, Yufang, Xu, Min, Ma, Zhimin, Xu, Yu, Wang, Tiange, Li, Mian, Liu, Yu, Lu, Jieli, Chen, Yuhong, Huang, Fei, Xu, Baihui, Zhang, Jie, Wang, Weiqing, Li, Xiaoying, Ning, Guang
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Age Factors Aged Analysis of Variance Ankle Brachial Index Asian Continental Ancestry Group - statistics & numerical data Atherosclerosis (general aspects, experimental research) Atherosclerosis - diagnostic imaging Atherosclerosis - ethnology Atherosclerosis - physiopathology Biological and medical sciences Blood and lymphatic vessels Cardiology. Vascular system Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Chi-Square Distribution China - epidemiology Cross-Sectional Studies Diseases of the peripheral vessels. Diseases of the vena cava. Miscellaneous Fatty Liver - diagnostic imaging Fatty Liver - ethnology Female Humans Logistic Models Male Medical sciences Middle Aged Neurosurgery Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Odds Ratio Predictive Value of Tests Prevalence Risk Assessment Risk Factors Skull, brain, vascular surgery Surgery (general aspects). Transplantations, organ and tissue grafts. Graft diseases
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