Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Comment
. 2022 Dec;76(6):E119-E120.
doi: 10.1002/hep.32681. Epub 2022 Jul 30.

Letter to the editor: NAFLD and sarcopenia: Association or causation?

Junwei Zhang  1 , Yiyao Xu, Xin Lu, Haitao Zhao
Affiliations
Comment

Letter to the editor: NAFLD and sarcopenia: Association or causation?

Junwei Zhang et al. Hepatology. 2022 Dec.
No abstract available

PubMed Disclaimer

Comment on

References

    1. Sinn DH, Kang D, Kang M, Guallar E, Hong YS, Lee KH, et al. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and accelerated loss of skeletal muscle mass: a longitudinal cohort study. Hepatology. 2022;76:1746–1754.
    1. Kim HY, Choi JY, Park YM. Relative skeletal muscle mass and non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease: from association to causation. Hepatobiliary Surg Nutr. 2019;8(5):509–11.
    1. Guo W, Zhao X, Miao M, Liang X, Li X, Qin P, et al. Association between skeletal muscle mass and severity of steatosis and fibrosis in non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease. Front Nutr. 2022;9:883015.
    1. Koo BK, Kim D, Joo SK, Kim JH, Chang MS, Kim BG, et al. Sarcopenia is an independent risk factor for non‐alcoholic steatohepatitis and significant fibrosis. J Hepatol. 2017;66:123–31.
    1. Chen L, Fan Z, Lv G. Letter to the editor: associations of muscle mass and grip strength with severe NAFLD: a prospective study of 333,295 UK Biobank participants. J Hepatol. 2022 May 20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2022.05.005 . [Epub ahead of print] - DOI