Abstract
PurposeTo examine the association between different phenotypes of obesity or metabolic syndromes and liver fibrosis score in a Taiwanese elderly population with fatty liver.Patients and MethodsThis cross-sectional study included 1817 participants aged ≥65 years with fatty liver diagnosed by sonography. We used ethnicity-specific criteria for body mass index and metabolic syndrome, and to define obesity phenotypes as metabolically healthy non-obese (MHNO), metabolically unhealthy non-obese (MUNO), metabolically healthy obese (MHO), and metabolically unhealthy obese (MUO). Correlated fibrosis severity was calculated using the nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) fibrosis score (NFS) and Fibrosis-4 (FIB-4). Fibrosis severity was divided into two categories according to NFS (no-to-mild fibrosis and advanced fibrosis, defined as NFS ≤ 0.676 and >0.676, respectively) and FIB-4 score (no-to-mild fibrosis and advanced fibrosis, defined as FIB-4 score ≤2.67 and >2.67, respectively).ResultsCompared with that in the MHNO group, the associated risk (odds ratio [OR], 95% confidence interval [CI]) of advanced fibrosis by NFS was 2.43 (1.50–3.93), 2.35 (1.25–4.41), and 6.11 (3.90–9.59), whereas that of advanced fibrosis by FIB-4 score was 1.34 (0.83–2.18), 2.37 (1.36–4.13), and 1.38 (0.82–2.31) in the MUNO, MHO, and MUO groups, respectively.ConclusionBoth metabolic syndrome and obesity were positively associated with more advanced fibrosis according to NFS. The detrimental effect of obesity appears to be more than metabolic abnormalities per se in the elderly with more advanced fibrosis severity according to the FIB-4 score.
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