Is non-alcoholic fatty liver disease closely associated with sub-clinical inflammation : a case-control study on Asian Indians in North India?
In this cohort of Asian Indians in North India, presence of NAFLD showed independent relationships with sub-clinical inflammation.
The findings of the study suggest that the urinary protein HC concentration correlates to the degree of IgG-uria but not to the degree of albuminuria during the course of proteinuric glomerular disease. Whether this correlation is to be explained by an intrinsic toxic effect on tubular cells executed by IgG or perhaps by some other high molecular weight proteins, needs to be investigated further. However, the results contribute to the understanding of the poor renal survival in patients with glomerular diseases and nonselective proteinuria.