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Dietary patterns in Brazilian patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease : ...
Ferolla, Silvia Marinho; Ferrari, Teresa Cristina de Abreu; Lima, Maria Luíza Pereira; Reis, Tâmara Oliveira; Tavares Júnior, Wilson CamposOBJECTIVE: Recent evidence suggests that non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is associated with diet. Our aim was to investigate the dietary patterns of a Brazilian population with this condition and compare them with the recommended diet. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 96 non-alcoholic fatty liver disease patients before any dietetic counseling. All patients underwent abdominal ultrasound, bio...
Dietary patterns in Brazilian patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: a...
Ferolla, Silvia Marinho; Ferrari, Teresa Cristina Abreu; Lima, Maria Luíza Pereira; Reis, Tâmara Oliveira; Tavares-Jr., Wilson CamposOBJECTIVE: Recent evidence suggests that non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is associated with diet. Our aim was to investigate the dietary patterns of a Brazilian population with this condition and compare them with the recommended diet. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 96 non-alcoholic fatty liver disease patients before any dietetic counseling. All patients underwent abdominal ultrasound, bio...
Analysis of HFE and non-HFE gene mutations in Brazilian patients with hemochrom...
Bittencourt, Paulo Lisboa; Marin, Maria Lúcia Carnevale; Couto, Cláudia Alves; Cançado, Eduardo Luiz Rachid; Carrilho, Flair José; Goldberg, Anna CarlaBACKGROUND: Approximately one-half of Brazilian patients with hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) are neither homozygous for the C282Y mutation nor compound heterozygous for the H63D and C282Y mutations that are associated with HH in Caucasians. Other mutations have been described in the HFE gene as well as in genes involved in iron metabolism, such as transferrin receptor 2 (TfR2) and ferroportin 1 (SCL40A1). AIMS...