Socha Piotr, Wierzbicka Aldona, Neuhoff-Murawska Joanna, Włodarek Dariusz, Podleśny Jerzy, Socha Jerzy
Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Immunology The Children's Memorial Health Institute Poland, 04-730 Warsaw.
Rocz Panstw Zakl Hig. 2007;58(1):129-37.
The main criteria of the metabolic syndrome are obesity, insulin resistance and disturbed lipid metabolism. The same disturbances are regarded to be involved into the pathomechanism of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease which is shown by epidemiological studies and animal models. Thus NAFLD can be regarded a specific feature of the metabolic syndrome and it should be looked for in high risk populations.