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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in Japanese patients with severe obesity who received laparoscopic...

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in Japanese patients with severe obesity who received laparoscopic...

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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in Japanese patients with severe obesity who received laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery (LRYGB) in comparison to non-Japanese patients

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Full title

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in Japanese patients with severe obesity who received laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery (LRYGB) in comparison to non-Japanese patients

Publisher

Japan: Springer Japan

Journal title

Journal of gastroenterology, 2008-01, Vol.43 (1), p.86-92

Language

English

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Publisher

Japan: Springer Japan

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Scope and Contents

Contents

Background.
The number of patients with morbid obesity is increasing worldwide. However, the prevalence of morbid obesity is still low in Japan, and therefore few systematic investigations of liver dysfunction in this population have so far been carried out. This study aimed to investigate the clinical characteristics in severe obese Japanese pa...

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Full title

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in Japanese patients with severe obesity who received laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery (LRYGB) in comparison to non-Japanese patients

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Record Identifier

TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_70328092

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_70328092

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ISSN

0944-1174

E-ISSN

1435-5922

DOI

10.1007/s00535-007-2130-0

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