Prevalence and associated factors of non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease in patients with type‐2 diabetes mellitus

Abstract

Type-2 diabetic patients have a high prevalence of ultrasonographic NAFLD and its presence is associated with obesity, mainly abdominal, hypertriglyceridaemia and high-normal ALT levels. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in diabetic patients may develop and progress independent of the diabetes progression itself.