Bi-directional analysis between fatty liver and cardiovascular disease risk factors

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• 关键词：Non-alcoholic fatty liver ; Type 2 diabetes ; Hypertension ; Hypertriglyceridemia ; Impaired fasting glucose ; Metabolic syndrome ; Cardiovascular disease risk factors
• 刊名：Journal of Hepatology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：66
• 期：2
• 页码：390-397
• 全文大小：658 K
• 卷排序：66

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The relations of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease to cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors are not fully understood. The objective of our study is to explore the bi-directional relationships of fatty liver to CVD risk factors.MethodsWe prospectively evaluated whether liver fat predicted the development of CVD risk factors and whether CVD risk factors predicted new onset fatty liver during 6 years of follow-up in middle- to older-aged Framingham Heart Study participants. We estimated liver fat using multi-detector computed tomography.ResultsWe included 1051 participants (mean age 45 ± 6 years, 46% women). The prevalence of fatty liver was 18% at baseline. In participants without fatty liver at baseline, 101 participants developed incident fatty liver over approximately 6 years. Baseline liver fat (per standard deviation increase) was associated with increased odds of incident hypertension (OR 1.42; 95% CI 1.15–1.76; p = 0.001) and incident type 2 diabetes (OR 1.43; 95% CI 1.09–1.88, p <0.001). In a parallel analysis, individuals with hypertension (OR 3.34; 95% CI 2.04–5.49), hypertriglyceridemia (OR 3.04; 95% CI: 1.84–5.02), impaired fasting glucose (OR 2.92; 95% CI 1.76–4.82), or type 2 diabetes (OR 4.15; 95% CI 1.19–14.46) at baseline had higher odds of incident fatty liver compared to individuals without those conditions (all p <0.03). In both analyses, the observed associations remained similar after additional adjustments for measures of adiposity.ConclusionsThe present study demonstrated bi-directional relationships between fatty liver and CVD risk factors among middle- to older-aged Framingham Heart Study participants.Lay summaryIt is not fully understood whether non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFLD) disease precedes or develops after increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. The findings of our study suggest a bi-directional relationship between NAFLD and CVD risk factors.