ECE2024 Poster Presentations Diabetes, Obesity, Metabolism and Nutrition (130 abstracts)
1Alexandra Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece., Endocrine Unit and Diabetes Center, Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Athens, Greece; 2Laiko General Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, Academic Department of Gastroenterology; 3Alexandra Hospital, Athens, Greece., Department of Endocrinology
Introduction: Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is a common feature of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Liver fibrosis has been associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD).
Aim: To investigate whether the fibrosis 4 index (FIB-4), a non-invasive marker of liver fibrosis, is associated with CVD or cancer in patients with T2DM.
Methods: Two hundred and nine consecutive T2DM patients were retrospectively evaluated. The mean time from the diagnosis to the first visit to our diabetes center was 9.83±8.6 years (median: 8.2 years; IQR: 12).
Results: One hundred and thirty-two (63.2%) patients were male and 77 (36.8%) were female. The mean age, body mass index (BMI), glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), and FIB-4 were 64.3±11 years, 30.5±5.8 kg/m2, 7.8±2, and 1.15±0.5, respectively. One hundred and fifty (71.8%) patients had FIB-4 <1.3, and 59 (28.2%) had FIB-4 >1.3. Patients with CVD at the first visit were significantly older compared to patients without CVD (68.9±8.4 vs 62.9±11.4, respectively; P<0.001), while they had substantially higher FIB-4 (1.26±0.54 vs 1.08±0.51, respectively; P=0.007). Patients with cancer of any type at the first visit were older (68.2±9.5 vs 64.4±10.9 years, P=0.098), having significantly higher FIB-4 (1.37±0.6 vs 1.1±0.5, P=0.004) compared to those without cancer. A significant correlation was revealed between FIB-4> 1.3 and the presence of CVD (χ 2=4.92, P=0.027) or the presence of cancer (χ 2=7.603, P=0.006), respectively. In the multivariate analysis, the presence of CVD was found to be independently associated with sex (male: OR 0.261, 95% CI 0.095-0.717; P= 0.009), age (OR 1.057, 95% CI 1.008- 1.108; P= 0.021), and hypertension (OR 6.146, 95% CI 2.442-15.471; P<0.001).
Conclusion: T2DM patients who develop CVD or cancer are older with higher FIB-4. Older female patients with a history of hypertension are at a higher risk of developing CVD.