Background: Diabetic retinopathy is a common chronic complication of diabetes and one of the leading causes of acquired blindness in the world. There is growing evidence that traditional risk factors do not fully justify the onset and progression of diabetic retinopathy. Therefore, some other risk factors such as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease may be involved in the pathophysiology of diabe...

Background and purpose: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is one of the most common causes of chronic liver disease and is a major public health problem worldwide. In recent years, the prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease has increased in children and adolescents. This study aimed to investigate the effect of silymarin on children with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Materials and...

Introdution: Nowadays, hyperlipidemia and fatty liver disease are one of the urbanity disorders. Medicinal plants regarding benefit effects traditionally had special role in health of society. So, this study was done to evaluate the effect of Berberis integerrima extract on hypertriglyceridemia and fatty liver disease improvement. Methods: This interventional clinical study was done on 188 pat...

Objective: Fatty liver causes progression in liver damage and accelerates liver fibrosis. Fatty liver may enhance AST and ALT enzymes in blood. Infiltration of lipid in liver is associated with an increasing in its echogenicity, depending on the severity of the lipid infiltration.  Methods: This study is a randomized non-blind clinical trial in order to investigate the effect of Artichoke (Cyn...