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Fatty liver indices in the multiethnic United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics · 2014 · Vol. 41(1) · pp. 65–76
Constance E. Ruhl✉(Scientific Systems (United States))James E. Everhart(National Institutes of Health)
Abstract
For predicting fatty liver, the US FLI was a modest improvement over the FLI in the multiethnic U.S. population. Using this measure, the fatty liver prevalence in the U.S. population increased substantially over two decades.
Liver Disease Diagnosis and TreatmentLiver Disease and TransplantationLiver Diseases and ImmunityNational Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyMedicineFatty liverWaistBody mass indexPopulationInternal medicineMetabolic syndromeConfidence intervalGastroenterology
MeSH terms
AdultAgedFatty LiverFemalegamma-GlutamyltransferaseHumansMaleMiddle AgedNutrition SurveysROC CurveSeverity of Illness IndexTriglyceridesUnited StatesBody Mass IndexPrevalence
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- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
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