Increase in the prevalence of fatty liver in Japan over the past 12 years: analysis of clinical background

The aim of this investigation was to elucidate the time-course of changes in the prevalence of fatty liver, and to analyze its clinical backgrounds over the previous 12-year period. Thirty-nine thousand one hundred and fifty-one individuals who visited the Tokai University Hospital Health Checkup Center from 1989 to 2000 were examined for the presence of fatty liver, and their clinical backgrounds were analyzed. In 1989, the prevalence of fatty...