Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 22: A free Liver Fibro scan camp was organized today at Jammu Diabetes and Thyroid Care Centre, Gandhi Nagar (Jammu) to assess the problem of Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
During the camp, senior Diabetologist Dr Raj Kumar Sharma (MD Medicine) informed the patients about the risk associated with fatty liver disease and diabetes. Dr Sharma said that even more worrisome is the fact that in the year 2020 there were 150 % more diabetics in India and one in two people with Type 2 Diabetes had non alcoholic fatty liver disease.
On the occasion, free diet and lifestyle changes were advised to the patients to reverse the symptoms. Dr Sharma said that every patient should be examined for non alcoholic steato hepatitis and liver fibrosis if they have Type 2 Diabetes or pre diabetes, high liver enzymes (ALT) or fatty liver.
Around 100 patients were screened during the camp and most of them were having fatty liver and more than 10 patients were having scores in liver cirrgosis range. All the patients were provided counseling on diet and lifestyle modification by an expert dietician and diabetes educator.
Dr Sharma said that all patients with obesity or over weight, belly fats and having high hip to waist ratio, uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetics struggling to achieve target goals of blood sugar, insulin resistance, poly cystic ovarian syndrome, under active thyroid gland, high cholesterol, elevated blood pressure, smokers and combination of 2 or more of these symptoms, should consult the doctor to further assess the diagnosis and treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
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