Prevalence of Ultrasound Diagnosed Fatty Liver Disease in Adult Patient in a Hospital in North West of Pakistan: A Community-Based Study

Abstract

Objective: To find the prevalence of ultrasound-diagnosed fatty liver disease in adult patients in a hospital in the 
northwest of Pakistan.
Study Design: Cross-sectional study
Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted at the Combined Military Hospital, Nowshera from 
October 2021 to April 2021.
Materials and Methods: Each subject underwent an ultrasound examination by radiologists with a 3.5 MHz probe.
This is a study based on the relationships between hepatic structure and the lab investigations related to metabolic 
disorders like LDL, HDL, Cholesterol, and TG. Standard deviation (SD) and mean with SPSS 20 were used to 
express the data. The cutoff for significance was ≤0.05.
Results: 500 patients were included in this study and 148 adult patients were diagnosed with fatty liver disease 
(FLD) with a mean age of 43.23± 14.22 years, out of which 84 were males (56.8%) and 64 were females (43.2%). 
62 (41.9%) out of 148 patients had grade 1 fatty changes on ultrasound, 65 (43.9) had grade 2, and 21(14.2) had 
grade 3 fatty liver disease.
Conclusion: Fatty liver disease is frequently diagnosed in patients referred for abdominal ultrasound examination, it 
was also observed that fatty liver disease is a hepatic manifestation which associated with metabolic syndrome as all 
indicators of metabolic syndrome found deranged.