Metabolic profiling of MRI-measured liver fat in the UK Biobank.

Gnatiuc Friedrichs L., Trichia E., Aguilar-Ramirez D., Preiss D.

OBJECTIVE: Liver fat associates with obesity-related metabolic disturbances and may precede incident diseases. Metabolomic profiles of liver fat in the UK Biobank were investigated. METHODS: Regression models assessed the associations between 180 metabolites and proton density liver fat fraction (PDFF) measured 5 years later through magnetic resonance imaging, as the difference (in SD units) of each log metabolite measure with 1-SD higher PDFF among those without chronic disease and not taking statins, and by diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. RESULTS: After accounting for confounders, multiple metabolites were associated positively with liver fat (p 

DOI

10.1002/oby.23687

Type

Journal article

Journal

Obesity (Silver Spring)

Publication Date

04/2023

Volume

31

Pages

1121 - 1132

Keywords

Humans, Cardiovascular Diseases, Biological Specimen Banks, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Liver, Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Triglycerides, Lipoproteins, HDL, United Kingdom, Lipoproteins, LDL

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