A New Metabolism-Related Index Correlates with the Degree of Liver Fibrosis in Hepatitis C Virus-Positive Patients

Background. Only a few biomarkers based on metabolic parameters for evaluating liver fibrosis have been reported. The aim of this study was to investigate the relevance of an index obtained from three metabolic variables (glycated albumin: GA, glycated hemoglobin: HbA1c, and branched-chain amino aci...

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Main Authors: Hirayuki Enomoto, Nobuhiro Aizawa, Hideji Nakamura, Ryo Takata, Yoshiyuki Sakai, Yoshinori Iwata, Hironori Tanaka, Naoto Ikeda, Tomoko Aoki, Kunihiro Hasegawa, Kazunori Yoh, Kenji Hashimoto, Akio Ishii, Tomoyuki Takashima, Masaki Saito, Hiroyasu Imanishi, Hiroko Iijima, Shuhei Nishiguchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:Gastroenterology Research and Practice
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/926169