Liver profile associated with non-alcoholic hepatic steatosis in adult patients treated at the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute Jipijapa, July-December 2023 period

Abstract

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is the accumulation of fat in hepatocytes, which is characterized by liver lesions and possibly because a large part of patients remain asymptomatic or have discrete biological alterations. The objective of the research was to analyze the liver profile and its relationship with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in patients treated at the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute Jipijapa from July to December 2023. The methodology proposed was a non-experimental, descriptive, retrospective study, composed of a sample of 228 participants. The results showed that in the TGO test, the male gender predominated with 67.7% with slightly increased levels; they also had a higher frequency of elevated TGP levels with 76.0%; In addition, it was presented that 75.9% had grade 1 steatosis as well as 12.7% grade 2 steatosis and only 11.4% had grade 3 steatosis; In the hypothesis testing, it was identified that each parameter.