%0 Journal Article
%T Hepatic Steatosis and Diabetes Mellitus: Risk Factors, Pathophysiology and with its Clinical Implications: A Hospital Based Case Control Study in Western Region of Nepal
%A Ankush Mittal
%A Brijesh Sathian
%A Nishida Chandrasekharan
%A Akshay Lekhi
%A Rashad Rahib
%A Sanjeev Dwedi
%J Nepal Journal of Epidemiology
%P 51-56
%D 2011
%I International Nepal Epidemiological Association (INEA)
%R 10.3126/nje.v1i2.5135
%X Background:£¿The perception of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) as an infrequent and benign condition is swiftly altering in developing countries as there has been an upsurge in non alcoholic fatty liver disease in Asia-Pacific region. NAFLD develops across all age groups and societies and is recognized to occur in 14%¨C30% of the common population.£¿ The foremost risk factors for NAFLD such as central obesity, diabetes mellitus, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, hypertension, hypertriglyceridemia are currently predominant and puts a very large population at risk of evolving hepatic steatosis in the coming decades.
%K Hepatic steatosis
%K Diabetes mellitus
%K Risk factors
%K Nepal.
%U http://www.nepjol.info/index.php/NJE/article/view/5135