作者
Meropi D Kontogianni, Nafsika Tileli, Aikaterini Margariti, Michael Georgoulis, Melanie Deutsch, Dina Tiniakos, Elisabeth Fragopoulou, Rodessa Zafiropoulou, Yannis Manios, George Papatheodoridis
发表日期
2014/8/1
期刊
Clinical Nutrition
卷号
33
期号
4
页码范围
678-683
出版商
Churchill Livingstone
简介
Background & aims
Nutrition has been proposed as a potential environmental factor affecting the risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). In the present study, the impact of adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD) on the presence and severity of NAFLD was explored.
Methods
Seventy-three consecutive adult patients with recent NAFLD diagnosis were included. Adherence to the MD was estimated with MedDietScore. Demographic and anthropometric data, body composition analysis and several biochemical and inflammatory markers were estimated. Liver stiffness measurements by transient elastography were available in 58 patients and liver biopsies in 34 patients. Fifty-eight patients were matched with 58 healthy controls in terms of age, sex and body mass index.
Results
MedDietScore was negatively correlated to patients' serum alanine aminotransferase (p = 0.03) and insulin levels (p = 0.001), insulin …
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