Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics
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Aliment. Pharmacol. Ther. · Jan 2008
Metabolic syndrome is associated with severe fibrosis in chronic viral hepatitis and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.
The prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its possible impact on the severity of liver histological lesions have not been studied prospectively in chronic liver diseases. ⋯ Metabolic syndrome is more prevalent in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis than in chronic viral hepatitis; it is associated independently with more severe fibrosis but not with the severity of steatosis, both in chronic viral hepatitis and in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.