THE METABOLIC SYNDROME FROM THE VIEW POINT OF PUBLIC HEALTH : WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE

摘要: Changes in human behavior and lifestyle over the last century have resulted a dramatic increase incidence of obesity, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome. Differences reported overall prevalence syndrome, which is generally range 10-30% depend on diagnostic criteria subjects study. Recently, Japanese for diagnosis syndrome were defined. With these criteria, presence visceral obesity essential simply determined by measurement waist circumference. Reflecting increasing Japan as well Western countries, regardless applied. number workers with elevated liver enzymes, whom virus hepatitis, alcoholic disease, drug induced autoimmune iron overload ruled out causal agents, has also be found to at workplace health checkups. Most such components steatosis liver, this pathologic condition now being termed nonalcoholic fatty disease (NAFLD). In review, we describe relationship between NAFLD