European Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become the most common liver disease in the world mainly because of the obesity pandemic. Objective: to assess the prevalence and association of NAFLD in Type II Diabetics with one or more components of the metabolic syndrome. Methods: The present observational cross sectional study was carried out at tertiary care center of central India from November 2020 to October 2022.  Results: There were 46(59.7%) males and 31(40.3%) females. The mean age of cases with NAFLD was found to be 52.89±10.61 years. There is an increased risk of 1.667 times was observed for those with high BMI in association to with NAFLD which is statistically not significant. The mean HbA1C was higher in cases with NAFLD than in cases without NAFLD which is not statistically significant. Among the cases, 34 were diabetics with no other component of metabolic syndrome and 38.23% (13/34) of them had NAFLD; Conclusions: There is high period prevalence of NAFLD in type 2 Diabetic males. Study did not observe significant association between NAFLD and components of metabolic syndrome