To Study the Anthropometric Parameters in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Patients
Journal Title: Saudi Journal of Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 3, Issue 5
Abstract
Abstract:Fatty liver disease in absence of alcohol abuse is now emerging as a major health burden in the world. It represents the hepatic manifestation of the metabolic syndrome, a variably defined aggregate of disorders related to obesity, insulin resistance, hypertension and hyperlipdemia.To study the various anthropometric parameters in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease patients.The present study was conducted in the Department of Medicine on 65 patients with ultra-sonographic finding of fatty liver disease with no history of alcohol. Various anthropometric measurements like neck circumference, height, weight, waist to hip ratio, BMI were measured and recorded. For analysis, statistical software SPSS latest Version 20.0 was used. The results were analysed using the appropriate statistics.In our study we found that 45 patients ie 69% are obese and maximumnumber of the patients ie 95% males and 100% females have their waist hip ratio above the cut off value and 64% male and 98% female have neck circumference more than the cut off value .The study concludes obesity, neck circumference and waist:hip ratio was associated with NAFLD in our study. Keywords: anthropometric parameters, Obesity, waist to hip ratio, Neck circumference, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
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Vinay Kumar Warkade, Prashant Khuraiya, Atul Shende
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