International journal of scientific research | 2021
PREVALENCE OF NAFLD AMONG HEALTHY LIVER DONORS
Abstract
NAFLD is hepatic pandemic of the twenty \uf001rst century, being leading cause of chronic hepatic disease in western world. We did a cross sectional\nstudy to \uf001nd out prevalence of NAFLD among prospective healthy liver donors at a tertiary care hospital at New Delhi, India over a period from\nJune 2014 to March 2016. 124 apparently healthy prospective liver donors were selected. Exclusion criteria were set to exclude all those who had\nsigni\uf001cant history of alcohol intake (de\uf001ned as greater than 30g/day for men and greater than 20g/day for women over last two years), Hepatitis B\nor C infection, severe surgical weight loss or emaciation, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Celiac disease, history of drug intake known to cause hepatic\nsteatosis. Out of 124 prospective liver donors included in this study, 29 (23%) donors were found to have fatty liver on USG abdomen; 38 (31%)\ndonors had fatty liver on unenhanced CTof the abdomen (LAI of ≤ 5 HU); 61 (49%) donors had fatty liver on magnetic resonance.