Social network refers to the mutual relationship between individuals and their family members, relatives, friends and other interactive members (Lubben, 1988). Studies have shown that for patients with diabetes, social network is positively associated with their self-management, but that their social network is at a medium low level (Vassilev et al., 2014;Vissenberg et al., 2016).Patients with diabetes may reduce their contact with social network members due to the effect of the disease; for example dietary restriction often reduces the patient's social activities, or the use of hypoglycaemic drugs reduces the number of gatherings. Thus, their social network level is affected negatively (Hempler et al., 2013).
The purpose was to evaluate the feasibility of IDEAL-IQ in distinction of patients with early liver cirrhosis(compensated stage). Sixty CHB patients with compensated cirrhosis conformed by liver biopsy and twenty healthy controls were recruited. FF and R2* of IDEAL-IQ sequence were analyzed between CHB compensated cirrhosis patients and volunteers. Correlations between FF and R2* and ALT, INR values were analyzed in CHB patients with compensated cirrhosis. R2* was statistically different between compensated cirrhosis patients and volunteers (p<0.01) with AUC of 0.726. The correlations between FF and ALT, INR were both fair(0.268, p=0.03 and -0.351, p<0.01).
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