Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Bidirectional Relationship

Table 2

Studies which assessed NAFLD prevalence among patients with T2DM.

Ref.	Study design; follow-up; and population	Diagnostic method of NAFLD	Prevalence of NAFLD
Williamson et al. 2011 [8]	Retrospective study; n = 918; 1 years	Ultrasound	42,6%
Lv et al. 2013 [44]	Prospective cohort study; n = 1217; 4 years	Ultrasound	61%
Silaghi et al. 2015 [45]	Retrospective cohort study; n = 336; N/A	Ultrasound	86%
Mantovani et al. 2016 [46]	Retrospective cohort study; n = 330; 2 years	Ultrasound	72,1%
Guo et al. 2017 [47]	Prospective cohort study; n = 8571; 9 years	Ultrasound	50,6%
Yi et al. 2017 [48]	Prospective cohort study; n = 3861; 1 year	Ultrasound	45,4%
Ding et al. 2017 [49]	Prospective cohort study; n = 1648; 1 year	Ultrasound	41,6%
Sporea et al. 2020 [50]	Prospective cohort study; n = 534; N/A	Ultrasound	76,1%

NAFLD, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease; T2DM, type 2 diabetes mellitus; N/A, not available.