Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and chronic hepatitis C (CHC) are systemic diseases with a broad spectrum of coexisting disorders, but their common features are insulin resistance and higher frequency of concomitant type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). According to recent studies, a higher frequency of CHC in patients with DM is not associated with this cohort exposure to multiple medical interventions, but with CHC being a possible risk factor for developing DM. CHC m...