Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is a chronic, cholestatic, autoimmune disease with a
variable progressive course. PBC can cause debilitating symptoms including fatigue and …

The prevalence of osteoporosis and sarcopenia is significantly higher in patients with liver
disease than in those without liver disease and osteoporosis and sarcopenia negatively …

Practice Guidelines 1;(3) guideline policies, including the AASLD Policy on the
Development and Use of Practice Guidelines and the American Gastroenterological …

Osteomalacia rarely occurs in adult patients with chronic liver disease despite a low serum
vitamin D level being reported in up to two‐thirds of patients with cirrhosis. In contrast …

Osteoporosis is a frequent complication in patients with chronic liver disease, especially in
end‐stages and in chronic cholestasis, in addition to non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease …

Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is an immune-mediated chronic cholestatic liver disease with
a slowly progressive course. Without treatment, most patients eventually develop fibrosis …

Background Morbidity in primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is multifactorial. Osteoporosis
related to cholestasis is an extrahepatic complication of PBC. It is not fully established to …

Context: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has been considered as a hepatic
manifestation of the metabolic syndrome and is associated with various metabolic …

Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a chronic and slowly progressive cholestatic liver disease
of autoimmune etiology characterized by injury of the intrahepatic bile ducts that may …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: The influence of osteoporosis and liver disease on fracture risk is
not well characterized in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC). We studied a large …