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Obesity Surgery
Published in: Obesity Surgery 10/2008

01-10-2008 | Letter to the editor

Reply to Letter: Metabolic Syndrome is Related to Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis in Severely Obese Subjects

Authors: Wei-Jei Lee, Phui-Ly Liew

Published in: Obesity Surgery | Issue 10/2008

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Reply: We are grateful for the comments by Ercin et al. doi:10.1007/s11695-008-9585-9. Some of the obese subjects with or without NASH in our study [1] have overt diabetes. We only collected the laboratory data of fasting sugar, HbA1c, plasma insulin, and HOMA-IR in our patients. The lack of correlation between metabolic syndrome and plasma adipokine levels is one of the limitations of our study. The diagnosis of NASH should exclude medication that causes fatty change in the liver. In our study, a detailed medication history was obtained in every obese subject preoperatively. …
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Huang HL, Lin WY, Lee LT, Wang HH, Lee W-J, Wang KC. Metabolic syndrome is related to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in severely obese subjects. Obes Surg. 2007;17:1457–63.PubMedCrossRef
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Title
Reply to Letter: Metabolic Syndrome is Related to Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis in Severely Obese Subjects
Authors
Wei-Jei Lee
Phui-Ly Liew
Publication date
01-10-2008
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Obesity Surgery / Issue 10/2008
Print ISSN: 0960-8923
Electronic ISSN: 1708-0428
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-008-9595-7

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