J Korean Med Sci.  2012 Nov;27(11):1447-1448. 10.3346/jkms.2012.27.11.1447.

Letter to the Editor: Visceral Fat and Liver Fat as Risk Factors of Metabolic Syndrome

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Family Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. iron1600@catholic.ac.kr
  • 2Department of Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.

Abstract

No abstract available.


MeSH Terms

Fatty Liver/*complications
Female
Humans
Intra-Abdominal Fat/*anatomy & histology
Male
Metabolic Syndrome X/*etiology

Reference

1. Lee J, Chung DS, Kang JH, Yu BY. Comparison of visceral fat and liver fat as risk factors of metabolic syndrome. J Korean Med Sci. 2012. 27:184–189.
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3. Kodama Y, Ng CS, Wu TT, Ayers GD, Curley SA, Abdalla EK, Vauthey JN, Charnsangavej C. Comparison of CT methods for determining the fat content of the liver. AJR. 2007. 188:1307–1312.
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