conclusions our results showed for the first time that lyplal1 gene is not associated with a risk of nafld development in the chinese han population. the variant carriers of overall subjects significantly increased weight, bmi and ldl. patients and methods lyplal1 rs12137855 gene was genotyped in 184 patients with nafld and 114 healthy controls using sequencing and polymerase chain reaction ana...

background: transient elastography (te) is a new modality for the diagnosis of liver fibrosis caused by various etiologies. this study was conducted to determine the accuracy of te in detecting the different stages of liver fibrosis in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) patients. methods: medline/pubmed, embase, ovid, cochrane library, american college of physicians (acp) journal club, g...

Background: Metabolic syndrome (MS) and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a common public health problem. Visfatin is secreted by visceral adipose tissue and is an adipocytokine. It could be a pro-inflammatory adipocytokine and is related to the metabolic syndrome and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. This study evaluated the association between visfatin levels in patients w...

introduction worldwide, chronic liver disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. causes of elevated serum alanine aminotransferase (alt) levels vary depending on the population under study. the aim of this study is to evaluate the frequency and causes of persistently elevated alt levels in patients of the gastroenterology (gi) clinics in ghaem and emam reza hospitals in mashhad, iran....

background non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) is the most common form of liver disease in many parts of the world. objectives the aim of the present study was to identify the most important factors influencing nafld using a classification tree (ct) to predict the probability of nafld. patients and methods this cross-sectional study was conducted in kavar, a town in the south of fars prov...

in the present study, we examined the relationship between family history of cardiovascular diseases (cvd), dyslipidemia, hypertension, and diabetes with laboratorial abnormalities and syndromes in iranian patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld). a total of 332 nafld patients from our outpatient clinic were consecutively entered into analysis. exclusion criteria were having diab...

background: a hypothesis has been presented about the role of serum iron, ferritin and transferrin saturation among patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) and resistance to insulin (metabolic syndrome [mets]), but there is much controversy. this study aimed at investigating the level of serum iron and demographic characteristics in patients with nafld with or without mets. meth...