Prevalence of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Iran: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has a benign course in several patients; however, a serious form of this disease can turn into liver failure, liver cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma.

Aim

This study aims to estimate the prevalence of NAFLD in Iran.

Method

We searched the following databases from January 2000 to December 2022: Scopus, Pubmed/Medline, Embase, Web of Sciences, the Cochrane Library, and Google Scholar also a number of Iranian databases, namely MagIran, SID, and Elmnet. Additionally, the quality of the included studies was evaluated through the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. We estimated heterogeneity between studies using the I² statistic. Furthermore, we performed a synthesis of prevalence estimates through the random-effect

SUBMITTER: Tabaeian SP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10709132 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature