Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in the Rotterdam Study: About muscle mass, sarcopenia, fat mass, and fat distribution
Journal of Bone and Mineral Research May 18, 2019
Alferink LJM, et al. - For evaluation of body composition and muscle function with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), authors conducted a population-based study in elderly individuals. This study included 4609 participants of European descent, who went through dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and hepatic ultrasonography and 1623 out of them had NAFLD. Normal-weight NAFLD was found to be linked with both the groups having high-fat mass and low skeletal muscle index. NAFLD prevalence was best predicted by fat distribution.
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