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Nonalcoholic Hepatic Steatosis Is a Strong Predictor of High-Risk Coronary-Artery Plaques as Determined by Multidetector CT

BACKGROUND: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is associated with a risk of coronary artery disease (e.g., diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, metabolic syndrome). We evaluated whether nonalcoholic hepatic steatosis is associated with high-risk plaques as assessed by multidetector computed tomography (CT...

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Autores principales: Osawa, Kazuhiro, Miyoshi, Toru, Yamauchi, Kentarou, Koyama, Yasushi, Nakamura, Kazufumi, Sato, Shuhei, Kanazawa, Susumu, Ito, Hiroshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4488355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26125952
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131138