Intrauterine Growth Retardation, Insulin Resistance, and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children | Zendy

Abigail Fraser | Zendy; Shah Ebrahim | Zendy; Yoav BenShlomo | Zendy; George Davey Smith | Zendy; Debbie A. Lawlor | Zendy

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Intrauterine Growth Retardation, Insulin Resistance, and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children

Author(s) -

Abigail Fraser,

Shah Ebrahim,

Yoav BenShlomo,

George Davey Smith,

Debbie A. Lawlor

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

diabetes care

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 6.636

H-Index - 363

eISSN - 1935-5548

pISSN - 0149-5992

DOI - 10.2337/dc07-1246

Subject(s) - medicine , nonalcoholic fatty liver disease , insulin resistance , diabetes mellitus , fatty liver , endocrinology , growth retardation , disease , insulin , pregnancy , biology , genetics

We read with interest the article by Nobili et al. (1), who reported results of a case-control study that demonstrated an association between intrauterine growth retardation (defined as small for gestational age [SGA]) and pediatric nonalcoholic streatohepatitis (nonalcoholic fatty liver disease [NAFLD]).Nobili et al. (1) compared children with NAFLD with hospital control subjects. The choice of control subjects may result in an underestimate of the association between SGA and NAFLD if hospitalized children …

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