Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3002686 | Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases | 2007 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Our findings show that elevated ALT and AST activity are associated with increased fasting insulin and not with obesity per se, suggesting that the presence of insulin resistance, rather than BMI alone, plays a role in mediating the increased aminotransferase activity.
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Authors
Gianluca Iacobellis, Antonio Moschetta, Raffaella Buzzetti, Maria Cristina Ribaudo, Marco Giorgio Baroni, Frida Leonetti,