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Liver fibrosis in obese patients with fatty livers
A Watanabe1, M Kobayashi, S Yoshitomi
1First Department of Internal Medicine, Okayama University Medical School, Japan.
Journal of Medicine
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Liver fibrosis was observed in non-alcoholic, non-diabetic obese patients with fatty liver. The extent of fibrosis was more severe in patients who were obese for a long time and had severe fatty deposition in the liver. Laboratory data were not useful for differentiating between fatty livers with and without liver fibrosis. The results suggested that fatty liver in obese patients should be treated by weight reduction in order to prevent the progression of liver fibrosis.