Evaluation of risk factors of metabolic syndrome and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: results of screening of office employees in Almaty city.

Abstract

Association for the Study of the Liver, Almaty c., Republic of Kazakhstan At present nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is one of the most common internal diseases in hospital, leading to life quality deterioration, disability and mortality both for the reason, associated with concurrent cardiovascular diseases and components of metabolic syndrome and for the reason directly associated with a liver disease itself. Provided epidemiological cross sectional study-screening is focused on examination of NAFLD prevalence and associated components of metabolic syndrome in «theoretical» healthy individuals, i.e. office employees of Almaty city.