1. Association of Lipid Profile with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease diagnosed on Ultrasound
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Ambreen Zahoor, Iram ` Iqbal, Sajid Naseem, and Zaidan Idrees Choudhary
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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease ,Dyslipidemia ,Metabolic syndrome. ,Medicine - Abstract
Objectives: To evaluate lipid profile parameters in patients with various grades of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) diagnosed on sonography. Material and Method: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at HBS General Hospital, Islamabad over a period of six months from January 2018 to June 2018. Seventy-nine adults of either gender diagnosed with NAFLD on ultrasonography were consecutively included. Fasting blood sample of all the subjects was analyzed for total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) Comparison of lipid abnormalities between different grades of NAFLD was done by statistical analysis with p-value
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- 2020
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