Open AccessCHD is Associated With Higher Grades of NAFLD Predicted by Liver Stiffness
Author(s) -
Yan Song,
Yujie Dang,
Ping Wang,
Gang Tian,
Litao Ruan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of clinical gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.141
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1539-2031
pISSN - 0192-0790
DOI - 10.1097/mcg.0000000000001238
Subject(s) - medicine , nonalcoholic fatty liver disease , cardiology , gastroenterology , fatty liver , liver disease , arterial stiffness , disease , blood pressure
Accumulating clinical and epidemiologic evidence indicates that nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is not only associated with liver-related morbidity and mortality, but also with a greater risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). However, there is currently no diagnostic parameter for NAFLD that has been determined to reliably indicate the presence of CHD as a co-morbidity. We evaluated the liver stiffness and visceral fat thickness of NAFLD patients ultrasonographically to explore the relationship between liver stiffness, visceral fat thickness, and CHD, aiming to find explore the relationship between the liver stiffness and CHD.