conclusions despite the fact that anesthesia in chronic liver disease is a scary and pretty challenging condition for every anesthesiologist, this hazard could be diminished by meticulous attention on optimizing the patient’s condition preoperatively and choosing appropriate anesthetic regimen and drugs in this setting. although there are paucity of statistics and investigations in this specifi...

aim : the aim of this study was to review cases of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) cases and to determine the prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease as a cause of elevated alanine aminotransferase (alt) in healthy blood donors in the permian area and also assess risk factors of nafld such as body mass index (bmi) and correlation with metabolic syndrome in these subjects. back...

Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is increasingly a common disease which is created by the accumulation of fat in the liver. About 20% of adults and 5% of children suffer from this disease. In some studies, half of obese children had fatty liver disease and approximately 90% of the patients with fatty liver were obese. The aim of this study was to evaluate fatty liver diseas...

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 ...

nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) is an obesity-associated disease and dysregulation of adipokines has an important role in its development. omentin-1 (itln1 protein) and resistin are two adipokine secreted from adipose tissue. single nucleotide polymorphisms in the adipokine genes may affect expression and activity of the adipokine, and thus play a contributory role in nafld pathogenesi...

background vitamin d deficiency is believed to cause variety of abnormalities such as liver stiffness and fibrosis. it is also shown that vitamin d deficiency may result in chronic liver disease or liver cirrhosis. in this study, we aimed to systematically review the literature wherein the relationship between vitamin d deficiency and the severity of chronic liver disease or liver cirrhosis had...