Prevalence of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children with Obesity

OBJECTIVES: To determine the prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in children with obesity because current estimates range from 1.7% to 85%. A second objective was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) for NAFLD in children with obesity. STUDY DESIGN...

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Published in:J Pediatr
Main Authors: Yu, Elizabeth L., Golshan, Shahrokh, Harlow, Kathryn E., Angeles, Jorge E., Durelle, Janis, Goyal, Nidhi P., Newton, Kimberly P., Sawh, Mary Catherine, Hooker, Jonathan, Sy, Ethan Z., Middleton, Michael S., Sirlin, Claude B., Schwimmer, Jeffrey B.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6440815/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30559024
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2018.11.021
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