Is hepatic glucose uptake increased in association with elevated serum γ-glutamyl transpeptidase and triglyceride?
Hepatic FDG uptake is closely associated with elevated TG and GGT regardless of the presence of FLD. Thus, inflammation response may play a major role in increased hepatic glucose uptake.
The increase in the prevalence of rigors associated with the use of UK does not appear to be related to an endotoxin in UK, since the concentration of endotoxin detected is well below the threshold pyrogenic dose in humans.