%0 Journal Article %T The Prevalence and Implication of Zinc Deficiency in Patients With Chronic Liver Disease %A Akinobu Kato %A Chizu Koreeda %A Daiki Habu %A Hironori Sakai %A Hisataka Moriwaki %A Kazuhiro Katayama %A Kazutomo Suzuki %A Kazuyuki Suzuki %A Keisuke Fukui %A Koichi Shiraishi %A Makoto Shiraki %A Michio Sata %A Motoh Iwasa %A Naohiro Kawamura %A Norifumi Kawada %A Ryujin Endo %A Satoru Tsuruta %A Shuhei Nishiguchi %A Takaaki Ohtake %A Takumi Kawaguchi %A Tatsunori Hanai %A Tetsuya Mine %A Toshifumi Ito %A Toshihito Seki %A Yoshio Tokumoto %A Yoshiyuki Miwa %A Yoshiyuki Takei %A Yuri Ito %A Yutaka Kohgo %J Journal of Clinical Medicine Research %D 2018 %R https://doi.org/10.14740/jocmr3374w %X Background: Patients with liver cirrhosis often exhibit zinc deficiency. Although zinc is involved in many bioactivities, many aspects of clinical implications of zinc deficiency in liver cirrhosis remain unclear. We aimed to reveal the prevalence and implications of zinc deficiency in liver cirrhosis by assessing associations with parameters such as clinical symptoms and laboratory data. %U https://www.jocmr.org/index.php/JOCMR/article/view/3374