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AMRA Medical Generates Largest Imaging Dataset on Body Composition Profiling
AMRA Medical expands body composition imaging dataset with new measurements and participants, to further support research within metabolic diseases and health
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LINKÖPING, Sweden, April 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today, AMRA Medical announced an expansion of its dataset, resulting from a collaboration with Pfizer Inc. and UK Biobank, from 10,000 to 25,000 UK Biobank participants – another step toward their shared goal of analyzing the body composition of 100,000 individuals. These data could aid scientific and clinical researchers in further investigations within a wide range of complex diseases, as well as overall metabolic health.
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LINKÖPING, Sweden, Jan. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ A perspective review article titled Harnessing Muscle-Liver Crosstalk to Treat Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis was recently published in
Frontiers in Endocrinology as part of a special issue of Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) Metabolic Contributors and Therapeutic Targets. Authored by scientific experts from Axcella Health, AMRA Medical, Linköping University, and Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), this paper describes the link between muscle composition and chronic liver diseases, including non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). It discusses in depth the scientific basis of underlying factors outside of the liver to treat NAFLD – affecting nearly one-quarter of the world s adult population.