conclusions we confirmed that serum opg concentrations reduce in obese children. however, no correlation was identified between opg and insulin resistance. opg levels are not meaningful in the diagnosis of nafld in children with obesity. methods this was a prospective, cross-sectional, controlled study that was conducted in the department of pediatrics at bagcilar training and research hospital...

background nonalcoholic fatty liver disease has become a worldwide challenge. liver biopsy remains the single most reliable approach to determine the severity of this disease. as patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease require close follow-up, performing this invasive method repeatedly seems impractical; therefore, designing a noninvasive system to follow up patients has become a common ...

conclusions decreases in the serum levels of liver aminotransferases and cytokines, in both groups, are related to low-calorie diets and exercise, rather than ptx. results the serum levels of liver aminotransferases were significantly reduced at 3 months and at 6 months, compared with baseline, in both groups. the serum levels of il-6 were significantly decreased, in both groups, only at 6 mont...

non-alcoholic steatohepatitis is a form of chronic hepatitis. fatty degeneration may involve liver focally or as a whole. the patient was a 41-year-old woman who was diabetic and admitted in buali hospital in ghazvin because of right flank pain, fever, vomiting and diarrhea. the patient was treated as pyelonephriris. liver function tests were as below: alt: 62 (40) ast: 54 (40), alkaline phosoh...

introduction: non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) has become the most common cause of liver disease worldwide. it has been suggested that dietary composition plays a role in nafld pathogenesis; thus, changing dietary patterns may constitute a therapeutic resource even in the absence of weight reduction. the aim of this study was to identify the characteristic of suitable dietary pattern i...

BACKGROUND Hepatic stellate cell (HSC) has been suggested to play a role in fibrogenesis in alcoholic liver disease. We evaluate the correlation with fibrogenesis and ultrastructure of hepatic stellate cells in alcoholic fatty liver. METHODS We studied 6 patients with alcoholic fatty liver and 5 non-alcoholic fatty liver. The numbers of fat droplets in hepatic stellate cell was determined by ...

nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) is one of the aspects of metabolic syndrome (mets). due to the increase of mets in iran, this study was conducted to determine the prevalence of nafld, its potential predictors and their sex distribution in north of iran, amol.in 2008 this population based cross-sectional study included 5023 adult individuals who were randomly selected from amol healthca...

background a strong association between obesity and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) has been reported. objectives this study was conducted to evaluate if new obesity indices, including a body shape index (absi) and body roundness index (bri), have stronger associations with nafld than waist-to-hip ratio (whr) and waist-to-height ratio (whtr). methods in this cross-sectional study, we ...