SHOULD NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE BE INCLUDED IN THE DEFINITION OF METABOLIC SYNDROME? A CROSS-SECTIONAL COMPARISON WITH ATP III CRITERIA IN NONOBESE NONDIABETIC SUBJECTS Giovanni Musso, MD 1 , Roberto Gambino, MD 2 , Simona Bo, MD 2 , Barbara Uberti, MD 2 , Giampaolo Broli, MD 2 , Gianfranco Pagano, MD 2 , and Maurizio Cassader, MD 2 1 Gradenigo Hospital, Turin 2 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Turin, Italy Running Title: AFLD VS. ATP III CRITERIA FOR metabolic syndrome Corresponding author: Giovanni Musso Gradenigo Hospital, Corso R.Margherita 8, 10124 Torino, Italy. giovanni_musso@yahoo.it Received for publication 3 August 2007 and accepted in revised form 19 November 2007. Diabetes Care Publish Ahead of Print, published online December 4, 2007 Copyright American Diabetes Association, Inc., 2007