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ArticleQuantitative imaging in medicine and surgery2021

Gender-specific liver aging and magnetic resonance imaging.

Yì Xiáng J Wáng

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Article in Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Biomarkers of aging.Science China. Life sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yì Xiáng J WángDepartment of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Chinese University of Hong Kong · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The number of imaging studies performed on elderly individuals will increase in the next several decades. It is important to understand normal age-related changes in the structural and functional imaging appearance of the liver. This article highlights a number of liver aging aspects which are particularly relevant to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Physiology of aging liver is associated with a reduction in size, in perfusion, and in function. Pulsed echo-Doppler showed substantial reduction of portal flow in elderly subjects, particularly those after the age of 75 years old. An MRI biomarker diffusion derived vessel density (DDVD) demonstrated that liver microperfusion volume in healthy females starts to decrease even before menopause age. Liver fat content and iron content increase with aging, and the change is more substantial in women after menopause. Adult men have higher liver fat and iron contents than women from the start and change less during aging. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is very common among assumed healthy subjects. There is a male predominance of NAFLD from the paediatric population up to fifth decade of life in adults. After the age of 60 years, women overtake their male counterparts in prevalence of NAFLD. Higher liver fat leads to decreased apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM)-D

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PMID34249621
PMCPMC8250034
OpenAlexW3158626341

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