Increasing liver fat is associated with progression of cardiovascular risk factors
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is associated with cardiovascular risk factors in cross-sectional analyses. However, less is known about how changes in liver fat associate with the progression of cardiovascular risk factors. METHODS: A substudy (n = 808) drawn from the Framingham Heart Study underwent serial computed tomography scans 6 years apart. We performed multivariable-adjusted regression to determine the association between changes in liver fat and progression of cardiovascular risk factors. RESULTS: Each standard deviation increase in liver fat was associated with adverse progression of systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, fasting glucose, high-density lipoprotein and log triglycerides. After adjusting for baseline cardiovascular risk, baseline body mass index (BMI), and change in BMI, increasing liver fat was significantly associated with adverse changes in fasting glucose and triglycerides. CONCLUSIONS: In a longitudinal cohort, increasing liver fat over 6 years was associated with progression of cardiovascular risk factors, even after accounting for BMI changes.
Source: Liver International
DOI: 10.1111/liv.14472
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: G278200998, G3405256882, AFGen Consortium: Atrial Fibrillation Genomics to Functional Analyses, Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program UL1, Identifying clinical and genetic correlates of hepatic fibrosis from fatty liver disease in the community, G5164707915, G5282488945, Advancing Atrial Fibrillation Precision Medicine, The Framingham Heart Study, IDENTIFICATION OF COMMON GENETIC VARIANTS FOR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AND PR INTERVAL, American Heart Association Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science (A-TRAC) 2.0
OpenAlex ID: W3017252194