Type 1 diabetes is not associated with an increased prevalence of hepatic steatosis.

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Date publication

mai 2015

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr HILLON Patrick, Dr JOOSTE Valérie, Pr PETIT Jean-Michel, Pr VERGES Bruno


Tous les auteurs :
Petit JM, Pedro L, Guiu B, Duvillard L, Bouillet B, Jooste V, Habchi M, Crevisy E, Fourmont C, Buffier P, Hillon P, Cercueil JP, Verges B

Résumé

AIM: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is commonly associated with Type 2 diabetes. Recently, it has been suggested that NAFLD is also frequently associated with Type 1 diabetes and diabetic complications. In this study, we set out to determine whether Type 1 diabetes was associated with liver fat content measured using magnetic resonance imaging. METHODS: One hundred and twenty-eight patients with Type 1 diabetes, 264 patients with Type 2 diabetes and 67 participants without diabetes were included in this study. Hepatic steatosis was defined as a liver fat content > 5.5%. RESULTS: People with Type 1 diabetes and controls were similar for age and BMI. Liver fat content was significantly higher in patients with Type 2 diabetes than in patients with Type 1 diabetes and controls. In the control group, nine people (13.4%) had steatosis compared with six (4.7%) patients with Type 1 diabetes (P = 0.04). Among patients with Type 2 diabetes group, 166 (62.8%) had steatosis. In multivariate analysis that included patients with Type 1 diabetes and participants without diabetes, steatosis was associated only with BMI, whereas age, sex, statin therapy and Type 1 diabetes were not. In patients with Type 1 diabetes, there was no correlation between liver fat content and estimated glomerular filtration rate or carotid intima media thickness. CONCLUSIONS: Our data showed that Type 1 diabetes was not associated with an increased prevalence of steatosis. Moreover, our study provided no specific arguments concerning a link between liver fat content and diabetic complications in patients with Type 1 diabetes. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

Référence

Diabet Med. 2015 May 16