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Association of fatty liver disease with mortality outcomes in an Eastern Finland male cohort
- Source :
- BMJ Open Gastroenterology, Vol 6, Iss 1 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- BMJ Publishing Group, 2019.
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Abstract
- ObjectiveFatty liver disease (FLD) has been associated with extrahepatic morbidity outcomes. However, reports on the association of FLD, assessed using fatty liver index (FLI), with mortality outcomes have been inconsistent. Our objective was to examine the effect of metabolic factors (blood pressure, insulin, fasting glucose, lipoproteins) on the associations of FLI with mortality outcomes among middle-aged men.Study designProspective cohort study.MethodsOur subjects were 1893 men at baseline from 1984 to 1989 in the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study cohort. Multivariable Cox regression models were used to analyse the association of baseline FLI, with the HRs for all-cause, disease, cardiovascular, non-cardiovascular and cancer mortality outcomes.ResultsThe mean FLI in the FLI categories were 16.2 in the low and reference category (FLI
- Subjects :
- Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20544774
- Volume :
- 6
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- BMJ Open Gastroenterology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.8696ac7bc5a447e19de12295bafe867c
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgast-2018-000219