To Study the Occurrence of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
Keywords:
NAFLD, Diabetes, Fibroscan, LSM, FibrosisAbstract
Background: Macrovascular and Microvascular complications are well evaluated in DM but NAFLD is the most neglected and unevaluated complication among DM.Fibroscan is the non-invasive method for assessing liver fibrosis which has high reproducibility and accuracySubjects and Methods: It was a Case Control study. Fibrosis was assessed by fibroscan and was then quantified. Results: In our study there was a significant difference seen among the different grades of fibrosis among controls and cases (p=0.004). The mean fibrosis score too was high among cases (13.498) as compared to controls (6.052). The overall prevalence of NAFLD (F2-F4) was found to be 50% among cases as compared to 14% in controls.Conclusion: Diabetes has a significant etiological role in occurrence of NAFLD in population. Fibroscan has a substantial role in screening and diagnosing diabetics for NAFLD and fibrosis, thus advocating its use is recommended to prevent understudied and unrecognized complication of DM preventing mortality and morbidity.
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