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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY
卷 103, 期 12, 页码 3029-3035出版社
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2008.02188.x
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- General Clinical Research Center of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine [M01 RR07122, R01 AR48797, NHLBI R01 HL67348, NIH T32-HL076132-02]
OBJECTIVES: To explore mechanisms whereby hepatic steatosis may be associated with cardiovascular risk, we investigated cross-sectional relationships between hepatic steatosis, regional fat accumulation, inflammatory biomarkers, and subclinical measures of atherosclerosis in the Diabetes Heart Study. METHODS: The Diabetes Heart Study is a family study of sibling pairs concordant for type 2 diabetes. A subset of 623 randomly selected participants was evaluated for hepatic steatosis, defined as a liver:spleen attenuation ratio of < 1.0 by computed tomography. We quantified visceral fat, subcutaneous fat, coronary, aortic, and carotid artery calcium by computed tomography; and carotid atherosclerosis by ultrasound. Associations between the liver:spleen attenuation ratio and these factors were expressed as Spearman correlations. RESULTS: After adjustment for age, race, gender, body mass index, and diabetes status, the liver:spleen attenuation ratio correlated with visceral fat (r = -0.22, P < 0.0001) and subcutaneous fat (r = -0.13, P = 0.031). Hepatic steatosis was associated with lower high-density lipoprotein (r = 0.21, P < 0.0001), higher triglycerides (r = -0.25, P < 0.0001), higher C-reactive protein (r = -0.095, P = 0.004), and lower serum adiponectin (r = 0.34, P < 0.0001). There were no significant associations between the liver:spleen attenuation ratio and coronary, aortic, or carotid calcium, or carotid intimal thickness. CONCLUSIONS: This suggests that hepatic steatosis is less likely a direct mediator of cardiovascular disease and may best be described as an epiphenomenon. The strong correlations between pro-atherogenic biomarkers, visceral fat, and elements of the metabolic syndrome suggest that hepatic steatosis reflects more than general adiposity, but represents a systemic, inflammatory, pro-atherogenic adipose state. (Am J Gastroenterol 2008;103:3029-3035).
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