1990 Volume 27 Issue 5 Pages 584-588
To elucidate the effect of aging on liver weight in the elderly, 582 elderly cases (male 291, female 291), were selected from 2000 elderly autopsied cases on the basis of being free from pathological findings affecting liver weight. Both liver weight and its ratio to body weight decreased with age, and influenced by obesity; the former increased and the latter decreased in obese cases. Analysis according to the degeee of obesity also showed decrese of liver weight and is ratio to body weight with age. Comparison between males and females of the same decade revealed the tendency that in females the liver weight was low, while liver weight·body weight ratio was high. The same results were obtained by analysis based on the degree of obesity.
