간장 ( 肝臟 ) , 담도 ( 膽道 ) 및 췌장 ( 膵臟 ) : 비만도와 체지방의 분포에 따른 간기능 장애

There were more frequent detection of asymptomatic hepatic dysfunction because of easy check up of biochemical liver function tests. The most common cause of the biochemical abnormality was the fatty liver except chronic B heaptitis in Korea. So, 150 cases of clinically diagnosed fatty liver were analyzed according to total body fat mass and fat distribution as the diagnostic paramete#r for the fatty liver. These hepatic dysfunction group irrespective serum lipid profiles (Group III) were compared with 111 cases of normal control group (Group I) and 65 cases of hyperlipidemia group without hepatic dysfunctian (Group II). 1) Total body fat mass was measured with body mass index (BMI). The BMI of male younger than 40 years old were 18.9 +- 1.3 (mean+S.E) in group I, 16.9 +- 2.9 in group II, and 24.9 +- 0.5 in group III with significant difference (p