NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE (NAFLD) IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS

OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) by ultrasonography in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus PATIENTS AND METHODS: The three months cross sectional study consists of type 2 diabetic population. The clinical history was taken and relevant physical examination was performed while the laboratory investigations included blood sugar level, liver function tests, fasting lipid profile and haemoglobin A1C whereas the NAFLD was diagnosed by ultrasound of the liver. The data was collected and analyzed in SPSS 17 to gain the frequencies, percentages and mean +/- SD. RESULTS: During three month study period the prevalence of NAFLD with male population predominance having mean +/- SD for age (yrs) and duration of diabetes (yrs) was 52.76 +/- 7.75 and 9.95 +/- 3.74. The existence of NAFLD was more common in patients with raised HBA1C and diabetic population with raised BMI. CONCLUSION: NAFLD is associated with type 2 diabetic patients and ultrasonography is the simple, economical and easily accessible tool to detected NAFLD in type 2 diabetic population.