Is Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Less Frequent among Women with Prader-Willi Syndrome?

OBJECTIVE: Patients with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) have been hypothesized to be at lower risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) because of higher insulin sensitivity. However, PWS patients have a peculiar body composition, i.e. higher fat mass and lower fat-free mass, which may confound...

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Autores principales: Bedogni, Giorgio, Grugni, Graziano, Nobili, Valerio, Agosti, Fiorenza, Saezza, Antonella, Sartorio, Alessandro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger GmbH 2014
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5644827/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24577228
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000358570

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5644827/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24577228
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000358570

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