Abstract Background and Aims: Fatty liver is the hepatic manifestation of obesity, but
community‐based assessment of fatty liver among unselected patients is limited. We sought …

Fatty liver disease has a high and increasing prevalence worldwide, is associated with
adverse cardiovascular events and higher long-term medical costs, and may lead to liver …

Background Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and its consequences are a growing public
health concern requiring cross-sectional imaging for noninvasive diagnosis and …

AIM: To evaluate the relationship between hepatic fat infiltration and abdominal fat volume
by using computed tomography (CT). METHODS: Three hundred and six patients who …

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Fatty liver disease is a common clinical entity in hepatology
practice. This study evaluates the prevalence and reproducibility of computed tomography …

Hepatic steatosis is defined as pathologically elevated liver fat content and has many
underlying causes. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic …

To develop a protocol for measurement of liver fat using computed tomography (CT), we
conducted a preliminary study with 118 men and 76 women to determine a readily …

Background To assess the degree of hepatic fat content, simple and noninvasive methods
with high objectivity and reproducibility are required. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is …

Background Although chemical shift–encoded (CSE) MRI proton density fat fraction (PDFF)
is the current noninvasive reference standard for liver fat quantification, the liver is more …

OBJECTIVE. The objective of this study was to evaluate changes in liver fat content over
time in asymptomatic adults and to investigate the factors that may influence these changes …