Relationship between abdominal fat stores and liver fat, pancreatic fat, and metabolic comorbidities in a pediatric population with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Andrew T TroutDavid E HunteMarialena MouzakiStavra A XanthakosWeizhe SuBin ZhangJonathan R DillmanPublished in: Abdominal radiology (New York) (2020)
In our population, there was an association between ethnicity and LFF, with the highest LFF in Hispanics. The presence or severity of hepatic steatosis could not be predicted based on patient size or the distribution of abdominal fat in our cohort. Neither LFF nor PFF were predictive of T2DM.