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SUBMITTER: Arai T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8342487 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Arai Taeang T Atsukawa Masanori M Tsubota Akihito A Kato Keizo K Abe Hiroshi H Ono Hirotaka H Kawano Tadamichi T Yoshida Yuji Y Tanabe Tomohide T Okubo Tomomi T Hayama Korenobu K Nakagawa-Iwashita Ai A Itokawa Norio N Kondo Chisa C Kaneko Keiko K Emoto Naoya N Nagao Mototsugu M Inagaki Kyoko K Fukuda Izumi I Sugihara Hitoshi H Iwakiri Katsuhiko K
Scientific reports 20210805 1
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is related to subclinical atherosclerosis. However, whether the severity of the disease (or which histopathological component) is associated with subclinical atherosclerosis remains controversial. This study aimed to investigate the association between the histopathological severity of NAFLD and carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) in Japanese patients with liver biopsy-proven NAFLD. Maximum-CIMT (max-CIMT) was measured as an index of carotid atheroscler ...[more]