Association between serum uric acid levels and incidence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in users of preventive medicine service in southern Brazil: a retrospective study

Abstract

A total of 855 medical records of patients with two evaluations at the executive check-up were initially evaluated (mean interval of 12 ± 3 months). The absence of a second abdominal ultrasound excluded 285 records and 291 were excluded by any of the following: excessive alcohol consumption, diagnosis of viral hepatitis, pregnancy, use of tapazol, methotrexate, or anabolic agents. Thus, the final sample resulted in 279 patients.

The majority of the patients evaluated were male (79.9%), and in the first evaluation, the mean overall age was 46.9 ± 7.9 years (47.3 ± 8.1 years among men and 45.9 ± 7.2 in women), the mean BMI was 27.3 ± 4.0 kg/m2 (27.8 ± 3.8 kg/m2 in men, 25.4 ± 3.9 kg/m2 in women) and the mean abdominal circumference was 97.4 ± 10.9 cm in men and 86.9 ± 11.8 cm in women