Relationship of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in patients with arterial hypertension to certain cardio-metabolic risk factors

A study was conducted by type "case" (n=29) and "control" (n=69) among the non-indigenous population in south Yakutia with arterial hypertension (AH) in the presence and absence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). The groups were comparable in age. Patients in the main group had statistically significantly high systolic blood pressure, average BMI and WC values compared with patients without NAFLD. In hypertensive patients in combination with NAFLD, the chance of developing obesity is more than 4 times higher compared to the control. Hypertensive patients with NAFLD had a significantly high incidence of atherogenic dyslipidemia. The conducted ROC analysis showed the prognostic significance of risk factors such as BMI, WC, TG and blood pressure levels with the risk of developing NAFLD in patients with hypertension. Keywords: arterial hypertension, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, obesity, dyslipidemia, predictive significance