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Title: Women with Fatty Liver Disease Have a Higher Cardiovascular Risk
Post by: Hep Editors on October 30, 2017, 10:56:49 am

Women with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) had a higher risk of cardiovascular events such as chest pain and heart attacks than women without fatty livers, and about the same risk as men with NAFLD, according to a report at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Liver Meeting, held this week in Washington, DC.

These findings show that the normal protective effect of female sex on cardiovascular risk is lost in women with fatty liver disease, Alina Allen, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., told reporters at an AASLD press conference.

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https://www.hepmag.com/article/fatty-liver-cardiovascular-aasld2017