Fatty Liver as a Potential Surrogate for Waist Circumference in the Diagnosis of Metabolic Syndrome: A Population-Based Study among Chinese Adults.

Int J Endocrinol · 2018 · PMC5914088 · PMID 29849623

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Liver fat also appears to be a better marker than VAT in determining categories of prediabetes, with an increasing trend in liver fat across groups characterized by normal glucose tolerance, isolated impaired fasting glucose (IFG), impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), and combined IFG and IGT [ 17 ].

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