Interval increase in the prevalence of symptomatic cholelithiasis-associated non-alcoholic fatty liver disease over a ten-year period in an Asian population.

CONCLUSION: Similar to other international studies, we found a significant increase in the prevalence of patients with NAFLD presenting symptomatically for cholecystectomy over an interval of ten years in Singapore. Hypertension and Indian race were most significantly associated with NAFLD in both time periods. This trend supports the need for concerted public health intervention to stem the increasing incidence of NAFLD and prevent its progression to more advanced liver disease. PMID: 27995261 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Singapore Medical Journal - Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Singapore Med J Source Type: research