Fatty liver disease might increase the risk of abdominal operation in patients with fatty liver and the prevalence of cancer in first-degree relatives

Autor: Metin Basaranoglu, Hakan Senturk, Omer Uysal, Bahadir Ceylan, Billur Canbakan, Kemal Yildiz, Birol Baysal
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: The Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology. 25:138-141
ISSN: 2148-5607
1300-4948
DOI: 10.5152/tjg.2014.7674
Popis: 63rd Annual Meeting of the American-Association-for-the-Study-of-Liver-Disease (AASLD) -- NOV 09-13, 2012 -- Boston, MA WOS: 000353553700026 PubMed ID: 25910292 Background/Aims: We investigated the risk of abdominal operation in patients with fatty liver and the risk of any cancer in first-degree relatives of patients with fatty liver. Materials and Methods: We evaluated 105 patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), 121 patients with biopsy-proven hepatitis C (61 patients with fatty liver and 60 patients without fatty liver), 50 patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and 109 patients with dyspepsia. Results: There was no difference in sex, mean age, and marital status among the groups except that patients with IBD were younger than the others (p
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