New studies highlight obesity's impact on gastrointestinal health
Monday, October 18, 2010 - 11:20
in Health & Medicine
Researchers found that patients with non-irrhotic liver cancer had a high prevalence of diabetes and elevated body mass indexes (BMI) despite a lack of steatosis. In other findings, BMI was also linked with adenoma recurrence in the short ad long-erm; the prevalence of angiographically-roven coronary disease in the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) cohort was 61 percent compared to 26 percent in the non-AFLD controls.
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