Endocrine Abstracts

Changed lipid and apoprotein composition of serum lipoproteins is commonly found in chronic liver diseases. In this study we evaluated the serum total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), HDL-cholesterol (HDL-c), LDL-cholesterol (LDL-c), apolipoprotein-A (Apo-A), apolipoprotein-B (Apo-B), and Lp(a) levels in age, BMI, and sex matched patients with liver cirrhosis (LC) (n: 50), chronic hepatitis (CH) (n: 31) and compared with control subjects (n: 69). The increasing severity of...