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Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Is Associated with Aortic Valve Sclerosis in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

BACKGROUND: Recent epidemiological data suggest that non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is closely associated with aortic valve sclerosis (AVS), an emerging risk factor for adverse cardiovascular outcomes, in nondiabetic and type 2 diabetic individuals. To date, nobody has investigated the as...

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Autores principales: Bonapace, Stefano, Valbusa, Filippo, Bertolini, Lorenzo, Pichiri, Isabella, Mantovani, Alessandro, Rossi, Andrea, Zenari, Luciano, Barbieri, Enrico, Targher, Giovanni
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3914984/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24505484
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088371