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Elevated plasma protein C levels correlate with the presence of fatty liver (NASH and NAFLD)
  1. N Assy1,
  2. S Schlesinger2,
  3. O Hussein3
  1. 1Department of Internal Medicine A, and Liver Unit, Sieff Government Hospital, Safed, Israel, and Technion Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
  2. 2Department of Internal Medicine A, Sieff Government Hospital, Safed, Israel
  3. 3Department of Internal Medicine A, Sieff Government Hospital, Safed, Israel, and Technion Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr N Assy
    Liver Unit, Sieff Government Hospital, Safed 13100, Israel; assy.nziv.health.gov.il

https://doi.org/10.1136/gut.2004.060251

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    The clinical implications of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are derived mostly from its common occurrence in the general population and the potential of the condition to progress to fibrosis and cirrhosis.1 Markers that help in making an early diagnosis and treatment are warranted. Protein C is a vitamin K dependent glycoprotein that functions as a circulating anticoagulant through proteolytic cleavage and inactivation of the coagulation factors Va and VIIIa.2 Whether or not protein C levels increase in patients with NAFLDs has not been assessed.

    We measured protein C …

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    • Conflict of interest: None declared.