The use of Cytokeratin-18 and Interleukin-6 as Diagnostic Markers for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Iraqi young adult

Authors

  • Shahad A. Qassam Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Karbala, Karbala, Iraq.
  • Shaymaa Z. Nada Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Karbala, Karbala, Iraq.
  • Zaid K. Ahmed Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, University of Karbala, Karbala, Iraq.

Keywords:

Interleukin-6, Keratin-18, Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Abstract

Objective: to study the prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in the studied group in Karbala, iraq and disease evaluation by inflammatory markers.

 

Method: a total of 816 patients referred for ultrasound  checking, their aged (18-40) years they were studied to detect the prevalence of NAFLD. For comparison of level of CK18, IL-6 and other studied markers, we choose 45 patients with NAFLD, From the remaining standard individuals, we randomly selected 45 individuals as control group. Blood sample was collected to measured lipid profile, liver enzyme and CK-18, Enzyme-linked immune sorbent assay (ELISA) used for detecting and quantifying inflammatory markers.

Results: The result shows that serum CK-18 was highly significant in patient with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease when comparison with control groups (P = 0.001), also showed serum IL-6 no significant increase in patient with NALD than in control group (P  <0.05).

Conclusion: The prevelance of NAFLD in the studied group (816 persons, age range 18-40 years) in Karbala, Iraq was 5,51%, and our result rely on finding from assays of inflammatory markers (cytokeratin 18 and IL6) and that most patient in this study were found to have  steatohepatitis.

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2019-09-26

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Qassam, S. A., Nada, S. Z., & Ahmed, Z. K. (2019). The use of Cytokeratin-18 and Interleukin-6 as Diagnostic Markers for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Iraqi young adult. Iraq Medical Journal, 3(3). Retrieved from https://iraqmedj.org/index.php/imj/article/view/688

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