Plasma cytokine levels imbalance in cirrhotic patients with impaired glucose tolerance and diabetes mellitus. A prospective study

Plasma cytokine levels imbalance in cirrhotic patients with impaired glucose tolerance and diabetes mellitus. A prospective study

Aims. To define if there is an imbalance in plasma levels of proinflammatory, fibrogenic and antifibrogenic cytokines in patients with liver cirrhosis (LC) and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) or diabetes mellitus (DM).Material and methods. We randomly selected 54 out of 100 patients with LC who had...

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Main Authors: Diego García-Compeán, M.D., M.MSc., Joel O. Jáquez-Quintana, Fernando J. Lavalle-González, José A. González-González, Héctor J. Maldonado-Garza, Jesús Z. Villarreal-Pérez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-07-01
Series:Annals of Hepatology
Subjects:
Liver cirrhosis
Oral glucose tolerance test
sTNF-R1 and TGF-β1
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1665268119308476

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