Serum Zinc Level Is Associated with Frailty in Chronic Liver Diseases

Serum Zinc Level Is Associated with Frailty in Chronic Liver Diseases

We sought to examine the serum zinc (Zn) level and frailty in patients with chronic liver diseases (CLDs, <i>n</i> = 285, 107 liver cirrhosis cases, median age = 66 years). Frailty was defined as a clinical syndrome in which three or more of the following criteria were met (frailty score...

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Main Authors: Hiroki Nishikawa, Kazunori Yoh, Hirayuki Enomoto, Yoshinori Iwata, Yoshiyuki Sakai, Kyohei Kishino, Yoshihiro Shimono, Naoto Ikeda, Tomoyuki Takashima, Nobuhiro Aizawa, Ryo Takata, Kunihiro Hasegawa, Takashi Koriyama, Yukihisa Yuri, Takashi Nishimura, Shuhei Nishiguchi, Hiroko Iijima
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-05-01
Series:Journal of Clinical Medicine
Subjects:
frailty
chronic liver disease
zinc
correlation
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/9/5/1570

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