A Retrospective Study On Liver Function Tests & Urine Protein in Presumptive Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Cases Performed in A Local Private Laboratory Service
Abstract
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) could be diagnosed either by imaging or histology, and laboratory parameters from RFT such as AST, ALT, GGT, as well as UP. In this study, data were collected from Advanced Pathology Sdn. Bhd. The data collected from random population in the year of 2020 were used to identify the association between the parameters of AST, ALT, GGT and UP in presumed NAFLD patients, which are being compared by age, and gender. The results show that the level of GGT was having an insignificant association between gender (p >0.05), but there is a statistically significant association between the age group of respondents (p <0.05). In addition, results from AST indicated that the gender of respondents has a significant relationship with AST (p <0.05), however insignificant correlation between the age group (p >0.05). While for ALT, it proved an insignificant correlation between the gender of respondents (p >0.05), but significant correlated with the age of respondents (p <0.05). Lastly, Chi-square test independence gave a result of p-value = 0.137 (p >0.05), which proved insignificant correlation between gender of respondents and presence of UP andp-value = 0.261 (p >0.05), which proved insignificant correlation between age of respondents and presence of UP.
(Chi-square test, p-value <0.05).
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