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Background: clinical data on impact of the Mediterranean diet on the the stage of non alcoholic fatty liver disease are limited and these studies have heterogeneous designs.Aim: we decide to explore any potential associations between adherence to the Mediterranean diet and histological characteristics of patients with NAFLD.Methods: a sample of 82 patients was analyzed in a cross sectional study. To evaluate the level of adherence to the Mediterranean dietary pattern the 14-Item Mediterranean Diet Assessment Tool was used.Results: thirty five patients (42.7%) had a low grade of steatosis (grade 1 of classification) and 47 patients (57.3%) had a high grade of steatosis (grade 2 and 3). Fifty-six patients (68.3%) had liver steatohepatitis and forty-two patients (51.2%) had liver fibrosis. In the logistic regresion analysis, one unit of the 14-Item Mediterranean Diet Assessment Tool was associated with a lower likehood of having steatohepatitis odds ratio 0.43 (CI:95%: 0.29-0.64) and steatosis 0.42 (CI:95%: 0.26- 0.70). Secondly, one unit of HOMA-IR was associated with higher likehood of having steatosis odds ratio 2.01 (CI:95%: 1.08-3.71) and liver fibrosis 1.38 (CI:95%: 1.10-1.80) .Conclusions: greater adherence to the Mediterranean diet was associated with lower likelihood of high grade of steatosis and presence of steatohepatitis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Non alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is associated with obesity, insulin resistance (IR) and increased type 2 diabetes (T2D). Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) is recognized as biochemical marker of NAFLD, currently used as screening for this disease. Objective: To estimate the associations between (ALT) with anthropometric variables, insulin resistance and inflamatory markers in pediatric population. Patients and Method: we studied 348 subjects (52.7% females), aged between 4.9 and 15.6 years. Blood samples for measuring: AST, ALT, glycaemia, insulin, lipid profile, hsCRP TNF-α, IL-6 and adiponectin. We calculate HOMA-IR, QUICKI y el HOMA-β. The results are expressed are expressed as median interquartile range. Variables were log10 transformed before Pearson correlations analyze. Results: Serum ALT levels were positively associated with BMI-SDS (r = 0.335), waist/ height ratio (r = 0.358), insulin (r = 0.33), HOMA-IR (r = 0.33), HOMA-β (r = 0.26), TG/HDL-c (r = 0.2) , hsCRP (r = 0.3); and a negative association with QUICKI (r = -0.25) and adiponectin (r = -0.113). Non-association with ALT, glycaemia, TNF-α and IL-6 was found. Conclusion: Our study demonstrated that ALT, but not AST, was significantly correlated with of insulin resistance and inflamatory markers, all of them recognized as risk parameters of pre diabetes stage. ALT should be part of the evaluation of all obesity children, mainly those with other cardiometabolic risk factors, since it could predict later development of T2DM. Further imaging studies are necessary to confirm fatty liver disease in this population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) includes hepatic steatosis, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma in its clinical presentation and evolution. It is related to obesity, especially abdominal, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and Metabolic Syndrome (SM). Overnutrition, sedentarism, genetic factors, and insulin resistance have been involved in its physiopathology. The prevalence of NAFLD ranges from 17 to 33%. NASH is present in 30% of these cases, 20 to 25% of which become hepatocellular carcinoma. NAFLD is one of the most frequent causes of alterations in hepatic function tests in asymptomatic patients. In its early stage, its main features are abdominal discomfort, fatigue, alanine-aminotransferase (ALAT) increase, gammaglutamyl transpeptidase (GGT), hepatomegaly, and hepatic hyperechogenicity on ultrasound scan. It is not a benign disease, since 32% of patients develop fibrosis, 20% fibrosis, and death risk related to hepatic dysfunction is 12% at 10 years. Therapeutic alternatives aim at modifying the life style and diet, and also include the prescription of drugs, all this affects the disease physiopathology, especially insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]