Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis – A Possibile Definition Criterion for Metabolic Syndrome

Abstract

A frequency evaluation of diseases associated with steatohepatitis in order to propose including non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) among the definition criteria for the metabolic syndrome. A screening study has been carried out including patients who had been admitted for 2 months to the Astra Medical Clinic within the Clinic Emergency Hospital in Brasov. The study included 59 patients diagnosed with non-alcoholoc steatohepatitis (29 women and 30 men) between 40 - 80 of age. These preliminary results lead us to the idea that nonalcoholic steatohepatitis might be another definition criterion for the metabolic syndrome.