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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
卷 17, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms17050633
关键词
insulin resistance; liver fat; obesity; PNPLA3; TM6SF2
资金
- Academy of Finland
- EU [634413]
- Sigrid Juselius
- State Research Funding (EVO)
- Novo Nordisk
- Finnish Medical Association
- Paulo Foundation
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) covers a spectrum of disease ranging from simple steatosis (NAFL) to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and fibrosis. Obese/Metabolic NAFLD is closely associated with obesity and insulin resistance and therefore predisposes to type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. NAFLD can also be caused by common genetic variants, the patatin-like phospholipase domain-containing 3 (PNPLA3) or the transmembrane 6 superfamily member 2 (TM6SF2). Since NAFL, irrespective of its cause, can progress to NASH and liver fibrosis, its definition is of interest. We reviewed the literature to identify data on definition of normal liver fat using liver histology and different imaging tools, and analyzed whether NAFLD caused by the gene variants is associated with insulin resistance. Histologically, normal liver fat content in liver biopsies is most commonly defined as macroscopic steatosis in less than 5% of hepatocytes. In the population-based Dallas Heart Study, the upper 95th percentile of liver fat measured by proton magnetic spectroscopy (1H-MRS) in healthy subjects was 5.6%, which corresponds to approximately 15% histological liver fat. When measured by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based techniques such as the proton density fat fraction (PDFF), 5% macroscopic steatosis corresponds to a PDFF of 6% to 6.4%. In contrast to Obese/metabolic NAFLD, NAFLD caused by genetic variants is not associated with insulin resistance. This implies that NAFLD is heterogeneous and that Obese/Metabolic NAFLD but not NAFLD due to the PNPLA3 or TM6SF2 genetic variants predisposes to type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
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