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Introduction: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) hasemerged as a major public health problem in recent times. Itis one of the neglected conditions in developing nations likeIndia, due to scarcity of studies on the subject. Study objectivewas to assess the prevalence of NAFLD among patientsundergoing master health check-up in a tertiary care teachinghospital and to analyze the profile of NAFLD cases.Material and materials: The study was a hospital basedanalytical cross-sectional study. Conducted in a tertiary careteaching hospital in south India. People attending the masterhealth checkup in the study setting from June 2015 to July2018 were included. Chi square test was used to test statisticalsignificance.Results: A total of 818 patients were included, out of whom130(15.89%) had NAFLD. The proportion of grade 1, 2 and3 fatty liver was 79.23%, 13.84% and 6.92% respectively.The difference in waist circumference and HDL valueswere statistically significant between male & female (Pvalue <0.001 and 0.007 respectively). No other componentsof Metabolic syndrome had shown statistically significantdifference between males and females. The difference in gradeof NAFLD across the age group is found to be significant witha P- value of 0.035. Grade of NAFLD was not associated withany other diet or lifestyle related parameters.Conclusions: Significant proportion of healthy subjects areaffected by NAFLD, some of them with severe grades, withkey gender differences in some of the factors associatedwith NAFLD. Patients and clinicians needs to be sensitizedregarding NAFLD