Journal
BIOMEDICINES
Volume 10, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines10112908
Keywords
fatty liver; cirrhosis; females; gender; liver
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Sex-based differences in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) were investigated, revealing that female patients had older age at diagnosis, higher rates of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, obesity, cirrhosis, and a lower age-adjusted all-cause mortality rate compared to males.
Sex-based medicine is an important emerging discipline within medicine. We investigated the clinical characteristics, complications, and outcomes of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) in females compared to males. Demographics, comorbidities, malignancy, complications, outcomes, and all-cause mortality of NAFLD patients older than 18 years were analyzed. The data were extracted using the MDClone platform from Clalit in Israel. A total of 111,993 (52.8%) of the study subjects were females with an average age of 44.4 +/- 14.7 years compared to 39.62 +/- 14.9 years in males, p < 0.001. Significantly higher rates of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, obesity, dementia, and thyroid cancer and lower rates of ischemic heart disease (22.3% vs. 27.3%, p < 0.001) were found among females. Females had a higher rate of cirrhosis, 2.3% vs. 1.9%, p < 0.001, and a lower rate of hepatocellular carcinoma, 0.4% vs. 0.5%, p < 0.001. In the multivariate analysis, a relationship between age, diabetes mellitus, and cirrhosis development were found among males and females. A lower age-adjusted mortality rate was found among females, 94.5/1000 vs. 116/1000 among males. In conclusion, older age at diagnosis, higher rates of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, obesity, cirrhosis, and a lower age-adjusted all-cause mortality rate were found among females with NAFLD.
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