Erschienen in:
01.12.2011 | Editorial
Hepatitis C virus and lipid profiles: more questions than answers?
verfasst von:
Ching-Sheng Hsu, Jia-Horng Kao
Erschienen in:
Hepatology International
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Ausgabe 4/2011
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Excerpt
Overnutrition and sedentary lifestyle have increased the global prevalence of diabetes and obesity [
1]. In addition, the accompanying metabolic derangements, cardiovascular diseases [
2], non-alcoholic fatty liver disease [
3], and different malignant diseases also heavily impact public health and economic burden worldwide. Insulin resistance, the essence of metabolic syndrome with a constellation of metabolic derangements as well as risk factors for both cardiovascular diseases and diabetes [
2], is known to aggravate hepatic steatosis, drive liver fibrosis progression, and increase the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) [
4]. Therefore, metabolic factors and their adjustments have been increasingly recognized in the clinical practice of hepatology, and become hot subjects in this active research field [
5]. …