normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 aim : the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of an aerobic exercise on serum level of liver enzymes and liver echogenicity in patients with non alcoholic fatty liver disease. background : non alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) has different prevalence in various parts of the world. obesity and low physical act...

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...

purpose: the aim of this study was to compare biochemical tests, body composition and anthropometric parameters in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) patients before and after ramadan fasting. methods: fifty nafld patients including 33 males and 17 females aged 18-65 year, were recruited. subjects attended after diagnosis based on  ultrasound imaging, with at least 10 hour fasting, before...

background: there is no convenient cheap pragmatic experimental model for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld)/nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (nash). we aimed to create a pragmatic model of nafld/nash. methods: sprague-dawley rats were fed a high-fat, high sugar homemade diet ad libitum for seven weeks. the high-fat, high sugar diet included 59% of energy derived from fat, 30% from carbohydra...

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...

background: the purpose of this study was to explore any gender-related differences in prevalence of and condition-associ­ated factors related to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) amongst police population in taipei, taiwan. methods: we studied a total of 1016 healthy adults with police work (972 males and 44 females) voluntarily admitted to physical check-up between january 2006 and de...

background :timely diagnosis of liver cirrhosis is vital for preventing further liver damage and giving the patient the chance of transplantation. although biopsy of the liver is the gold standard for cirrhosis assessment, it has some risks and limitations and this has led to the development of new noninvasive methods to determine the stage and prognosis of the patients. we aimed to design an a...