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- Title
Liver fat is reproducibly measured using computed tomography in the Framingham Heart Study.
- Authors
Speliotes, Elizabeth K; Massaro, Joseph M; Hoffmann, Udo; Foster, Meredith C; Sahani, Dushyant V; Hirschhorn, Joel N; O'Donnell, Christopher J; Fox, Caroline S
- Abstract
Fatty liver is the hepatic manifestation of obesity, but community-based assessment of fatty liver among unselected patients is limited. We sought to determine the feasibility of and optimal protocol for quantifying fat content in the liver in the Framingham Heart Study using multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) scanning.
- Publication
Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology, 2008, Vol 23, Issue 6, p894
- ISSN
1440-1746
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1440-1746.2008.05420.x