The frequency of fatty liver in sonography of patients without liver diseases background and its correlation with blood cholesterol and triglyceride
| Author | F Savadkouhi | en |
| Author | MT HosseiniTabatabaei | en |
| Author | S Shahabi Nezhad | en |
| Issued Date | 2003-09-30 | en |
| Abstract | The fatty liver is one of the important causes of the chronic liver diseases in both children and adults. Infiltration of fat in liver is associated with an increasing in its echogenicity, depending on the severity of the fat infiltration. In the present study, the prevalence of fatty liver was assayed in a group of patients who referred to the Khatam’ Hospital Zahedan, Southeast of Iran, for sonography concerning some diseases other than hepatic disorders. Patients with confounding causatives of fatty liver, i.e. using steroids, Methotrexatc, alcohol, as well as diabetes and pregnancy, were excluded from the study. The sonography of 247-screened subjects was performed and the diagnosed fatty livers were classified based on the standard grading. They were subsequently referred to the hospital laboratory for the measurement of their blood cholesterol and triglyceride (TG). The subjects included 177 (71.65%) females and 70 (28.35%) males between 30-60 years with an average of 42 years of age. The results showed that 81 cases (32.8%) indicated to have fatty liver. No correlation between the presence of fatty liver and age groups was observed. However, the observed fatty livers showed significant correlations with gender and the level of blood cholesterol and triglyceride (P | en |
| DOI | https://doi.org/ | en |
| Keyword | Fatty liver | en |
| Keyword | Cholesterol | en |
| Keyword | Triglyceride | en |
| Keyword | Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) | en |
| Publisher | Brieflands | en |
| Title | The frequency of fatty liver in sonography of patients without liver diseases background and its correlation with blood cholesterol and triglyceride | en |
| Type | Research Article | en |
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