Open AccessEffect of Meal Ingestion on Liver Stiffness and Controlled Attenuation Parameter
Author(s) -
Marco Silva,
Pedro Costa Moreira,
Armando Peixoto,
Ana Luísa Santos,
Susana Lopes,
Regina Gonçalves,
Pedro Pereira,
Hélder Cardoso,
Guilherme Macedo
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
portuguese journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2341-4545
pISSN - 2387-1954
DOI - 10.1159/000488505
Subject(s) - medicine , transient elastography , cirrhosis , meal , ingestion , liver disease , gastroenterology , body mass index , chronic liver disease , steatosis , liver fibrosis
Despite the increasing use of noninvasive methods for the assessment of liver fibrosis and steatosis, the effect of fasting and food intake on these parameters is not yet clear. Our aims were to evaluate the effect of food intake on liver stiffness (LS) (measured by transient elastography) and controlled attenuation parameter (CAP) in patients with different degrees of liver disease and healthy volunteers, and secondarily, to assess possible factors associated with variations of LS and CAP.