GURUPRASAD AITHAL's Outputs (147)

Volixibat in adults with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis: 24-week interim analysis from a randomized, phase II study (2020)
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Newsome, P. N., Palmer, M., Freilich, B., Sheikh, M. Y., Sheikh, A., Sarles, H., …Aithal, G. P. (2020). Volixibat in adults with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis: 24-week interim analysis from a randomized, phase II study. Journal of Hepatology, 73(2), 231-240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2020.03.024

Background & Aims:
Volixibat is an inhibitor of the apical sodium-dependent bile acid transporter (ASBT), hypothesized to treat non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) by blocking bile acid reuptake and stimulating hepatic bile acid production.
Method... Read More about Volixibat in adults with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis: 24-week interim analysis from a randomized, phase II study.

HLA associations with infliximab-induced liver injury (2020)
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Bruno, C. D., Fremd, B., Church, R. J., Daly, A. K., Aithal, G. P., Bjornsson, E. S., …Chow, C. R. (2020). HLA associations with infliximab-induced liver injury. Pharmacogenomics Journal, 20, 681–686. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41397-020-0159-0

Biomarkers that are able to identify patients at risk of drug-induced liver injury (DILI) after treatment with infliximab could be important in increasing the safety of infliximab use. We performed a genetic analysis to identify possible human leukoc... Read More about HLA associations with infliximab-induced liver injury.

The Evaluation and Use of a Food Frequency Questionnaire Among the Population in Trivandrum, South Kerala, India (2020)
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Vijay, A., Mohan, L., Taylor, M. A., Grove, J. I., Valdes, A. M., Aithal, G. P., & Shenoy, K. T. (2020). The Evaluation and Use of a Food Frequency Questionnaire Among the Population in Trivandrum, South Kerala, India. Nutrients, 12(2), Article 383. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12020383

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Dietary record tools such as food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) and food diaries (FD) are the most commonly used choices for assessing dietary intakes in most large-scale epidemiological studi... Read More about The Evaluation and Use of a Food Frequency Questionnaire Among the Population in Trivandrum, South Kerala, India.

Acute Hyperenergetic, High-Fat Feeding Increases Circulating FGF21, LECT2, and Fetuin-A in Healthy Men (2020)
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Willis, S. A., Sargeant, J. A., Yates, T., Takamura, T., Takayama, H., Gupta, V., …King, J. A. (2020). Acute Hyperenergetic, High-Fat Feeding Increases Circulating FGF21, LECT2, and Fetuin-A in Healthy Men. Journal of Nutrition, 150(5), 1076–1085. https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/nxz333

Background: Hepatokines such as fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), leukocyte cell-derived chemotaxin 2 (LECT2), fetuin-A, fetuin-B and selenoprotein P (SeP) are liver-derived proteins which are modulated by chronic energy status and metabolic disea... Read More about Acute Hyperenergetic, High-Fat Feeding Increases Circulating FGF21, LECT2, and Fetuin-A in Healthy Men.

Unacceptable failures: the final report of the Lancet Commission into liver disease in the UK (2019)
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Rice, P., Williams, R., Newsome, P., Aithal, G., Morling, J., Alexander, G. J., …Yeoman, A. (2020). Unacceptable failures: the final report of the Lancet Commission into liver disease in the UK. Lancet, 395(10219), 226-239. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2819%2932908-3

This final report of the Lancet Commission into liver disease in the UK stresses the continuing increase in burden of liver disease from excess alcohol consumption and obesity, with high levels of hospital admissions which are worsening in deprived a... Read More about Unacceptable failures: the final report of the Lancet Commission into liver disease in the UK.

Lower gut microbiome diversity and higher abundance of proinflammatory genus Collinsella are associated with biopsy-proven non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (2019)
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Astbury, S., Atallah, E., Vijay, A., Aithal, G., Grove, J., & Valdes, A. (2020). Lower gut microbiome diversity and higher abundance of proinflammatory genus Collinsella are associated with biopsy-proven non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. Gut Microbes, 11(3), 569-580. https://doi.org/10.1080/19490976.2019.1681861

There is increasing evidence for the role of gut microbial composition in the pathogenesis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is the most serious form of NAFLD where inflammation causes liver damage tha... Read More about Lower gut microbiome diversity and higher abundance of proinflammatory genus Collinsella are associated with biopsy-proven non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.

Transient elastography for screening of liver fibrosis: cost-effectiveness analysis from six prospective cohorts in Europe and Asia (2019)
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Serra-Burriel, M., Graupera, I., Torán, P., Thiele, M., Roulot, D., Wai-Sun Wong, V., …Lammert, F. (2019). Transient elastography for screening of liver fibrosis: cost-effectiveness analysis from six prospective cohorts in Europe and Asia. Journal of Hepatology, 71(6), 1141-1151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2019.08.019

Background & Aims: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and alcoholic liver disease (ALD) pose an important challenge to current clinical healthcare pathways due to a large number of at-risk patients. Therefore, we aimed to explore the cost-effec... Read More about Transient elastography for screening of liver fibrosis: cost-effectiveness analysis from six prospective cohorts in Europe and Asia.

Genetic Polymorphisms Implicated in Nonalcoholic Liver Disease or Selected Other Disorders Have No Influence on Drug‐Induced Liver Injury (2019)
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for the US DILIN Investigators, Bonkovsky, H. L., Severson, T., Nicoletti, P., Barnhart, H., Serrano, J., …Odin, J. (2019). Genetic Polymorphisms Implicated in Nonalcoholic Liver Disease or Selected Other Disorders Have No Influence on Drug‐Induced Liver Injury. Hepatology Communications, 3(8), 1032-1035. https://doi.org/10.1002/hep4.1382

With the application of genetic testing to contemporary medical diagnostics and practice, it has become apparent that the phenotypes of many disorders are modulated by host genetic factors. The aim of the current study was to determine whether select... Read More about Genetic Polymorphisms Implicated in Nonalcoholic Liver Disease or Selected Other Disorders Have No Influence on Drug‐Induced Liver Injury.

Natural History of Histologically-proven Alcohol Related Liver Disease: A systematic review (2019)
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Parker, R., Aithal, G. P., Becker, U., Gleeson, D., Masson, S., Wyatt, J. I., & Rowe, I. A. (2019). Natural History of Histologically-proven Alcohol Related Liver Disease: A systematic review. Journal of Hepatology, 71(3), 586-593. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2019.05.020

Background:
Studies into the natural history of alcohol related liver disease (ArLD) to date have lacked long-term follow-up, large numbers of participants, or both. We performed a systematic review to summarise studies that describe the natural hi... Read More about Natural History of Histologically-proven Alcohol Related Liver Disease: A systematic review.

Of Potions, Poisons, Polygonum and Pre‐emptive Polymorphism (2019)
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Aithal, G. P. (2019). Of Potions, Poisons, Polygonum and Pre‐emptive Polymorphism. Hepatology, 70(1), 8-10. https://doi.org/10.1002/hep.30798

There are scores of references to plants and herbs in William Shakespeare's plays; he was obviously very knowledgeable about their perceived effects. The secret to the highly potent love potion Oberon asks Puck to find, lies in the purple, yellow and... Read More about Of Potions, Poisons, Polygonum and Pre‐emptive Polymorphism.

Incidence and Etiology of Drug-Induced Liver Injury in Mainland China (2019)
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Shen, T., Liu, Y., Shang, J., Xie, Q., Li, J., Yan, M., …Chen, C. (2019). Incidence and Etiology of Drug-Induced Liver Injury in Mainland China. Gastroenterology, 156(8), 2230-2241.e11. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2019.02.002

Background & Aims: We performed a nationwide, retrospective study to determine the incidence and causes of drug-induced liver injury (DILI) in mainland China.
Methods: We collected data on a total of 25,927 confirmed DILI cases, hospitalized from... Read More about Incidence and Etiology of Drug-Induced Liver Injury in Mainland China.

Drug-Induced Liver Injury due to Flucloxacillin: Relevance of Multiple Human Leukocyte Antigen Alleles (2019)
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Nicoletti, P., Aithal, G. P., Chamberlain, T. C., Coulthard, S., Alshabeeb, M., Grove, J. I., …Daly, A. K. (2019). Drug-Induced Liver Injury due to Flucloxacillin: Relevance of Multiple Human Leukocyte Antigen Alleles. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 106(1), 245-253. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpt.1375

© 2019 The Authors Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics © 2019 American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Some patients prescribed flucloxacillin (~0.01%) develop drug-induced liver injury (DILI). HLA-B*57:01 is an established gene... Read More about Drug-Induced Liver Injury due to Flucloxacillin: Relevance of Multiple Human Leukocyte Antigen Alleles.

A Missense Variant in PTPN22 is a Risk Factor for Drug-induced Liver Injury (2019)
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Cirulli, E. T., Nicoletti, P., Abramson, K., Andrade, R. J., Bjornsson, E. S., Chalasani, N., …Watkins, P. B. (2019). A Missense Variant in PTPN22 is a Risk Factor for Drug-induced Liver Injury. Gastroenterology,

Background & Aims: We performed genetic analyses of a multiethnic cohort of patients with idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury (DILI) to identify variants associated with susceptibility.

Methods: We performed a genome-wide association study of... Read More about A Missense Variant in PTPN22 is a Risk Factor for Drug-induced Liver Injury.

Association of Pretransplant Renal Function With Liver Graft and Patient Survival After Liver Transplantation in Patients With Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (2018)
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Molnar, M. Z., Joglekar, K., Jiang, Y., Cholankeril, G., Abdul, M. K. M., Kedia, S., …Satapathy, S. K. (2019). Association of Pretransplant Renal Function With Liver Graft and Patient Survival After Liver Transplantation in Patients With Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis. Liver Transplantation, 25(3), 399-410. https://doi.org/10.1002/lt.25367

Background: Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis(NASH) is one of the top three indications for liver transplantation in western countries. It is unknown whether renal dysfunction at the time of liver transplantation has any effect on post-liver transplantati... Read More about Association of Pretransplant Renal Function With Liver Graft and Patient Survival After Liver Transplantation in Patients With Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis.

Identification of Cystic Lesions by Secondary Screening of Familial Pancreatic Cancer (FPC) Kindreds Is Not Associated with the Stratified Risk of Cancer (2018)
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Sheel, A. R. G., Harrison, S., Sarantitis, I., Nicholson, J. A., Hanna, T., Grocock, C., …Greenhalf, W. (2019). Identification of Cystic Lesions by Secondary Screening of Familial Pancreatic Cancer (FPC) Kindreds Is Not Associated with the Stratified Risk of Cancer. American Journal of Gastroenterology, 114(1), 155-164. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41395-018-0395-y

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Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms (IPMNs) are associated with risk of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). It is unclear if an IPMN in individuals at high risk of PDAC should be considered as a positive screening result or as... Read More about Identification of Cystic Lesions by Secondary Screening of Familial Pancreatic Cancer (FPC) Kindreds Is Not Associated with the Stratified Risk of Cancer.

MRI assessment of altered dynamic changes in liver haemodynamics following a meal challenge in compensated cirrhosis (2018)
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Cox, E. F., Palaniyappan, N., Aithal, G. P., Guha, I. N., & Francis, S. T. (2018). MRI assessment of altered dynamic changes in liver haemodynamics following a meal challenge in compensated cirrhosis. European Radiology Experimental, 2, Article 26. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41747-018-0056-3

Background: To use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to dynamically assess postprandial changes in hepatic and collateral blood flow, liver perfusion and oxygenation in healthy participants and patients with liver disease with compensated cirrhosis (C... Read More about MRI assessment of altered dynamic changes in liver haemodynamics following a meal challenge in compensated cirrhosis.

Using MRI to study the alterations in liver blood flow, perfusion and oxygenation in response to physiological stress challenges: meal, hyperoxia and hypercapnia (2018)
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Cox, E. F., Palaniyappan, N., Aithal, G. P., Guha, I. N., & Francis, S. T. (in press). Using MRI to study the alterations in liver blood flow, perfusion and oxygenation in response to physiological stress challenges: meal, hyperoxia and hypercapnia. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging,

Background: Non-invasive assessment of dynamic changes in liver blood flow, perfusion and oxygenation using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may allow detection of subtle haemodynamic alterations in cirrhosis.
Purpose: To assess the feasibility of... Read More about Using MRI to study the alterations in liver blood flow, perfusion and oxygenation in response to physiological stress challenges: meal, hyperoxia and hypercapnia.

The effect of exercise training on intrahepatic triglyceride and hepatic insulin sensitivity: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2018)
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Sargeant, J. A., Gray, L. J., Bodicoat, D. H., Willis, S. A., Stensel, D. J., Nimmo, M. A., Aithal, G. P., & King, J. A. (2018). The effect of exercise training on intrahepatic triglyceride and hepatic insulin sensitivity: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Obesity Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.12719

This systematic review and meta-analysis determined the impact of structured exercise training, and the influence of associated weight loss, on intrahepatic triglyceride (IHTG) in individuals with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). It also ex... Read More about The effect of exercise training on intrahepatic triglyceride and hepatic insulin sensitivity: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ADAPT: an algorithm incorporating PRO-C3 accurately identifies patients with NAFLD and advanced fibrosis (2018)
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Daniels, S. J., Leeming, D. J., Eslam, M., Hashem, A. M., Nielsen, M. J., Krag, A., Karsdal, M. A., Grove, J. I., Guha, I. N., Kawaguchi, T., Torimura, T., McLeod, D., Akiba, J., Kaye, P., de Boer, B., Aithal, G. P., Adams, L. A., & George, J. (2019). ADAPT: an algorithm incorporating PRO-C3 accurately identifies patients with NAFLD and advanced fibrosis. Hepatology, 69(3), 1075-1086. https://doi.org/10.1002/hep.30163

Background and Aim: Given the high global prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), the need for relevant non-invasive biomarkers and algorithms to accurately stage disease severity is a critical unmet medical need. Identifying those w... Read More about ADAPT: an algorithm incorporating PRO-C3 accurately identifies patients with NAFLD and advanced fibrosis.

Multi organ assessment of compensated cirrhosis patients using quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (2018)
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Bradley, C. R., Cox, E. F., Scott, R. A., James, M. W., Kaye, P., Aithal, G. P., Francis, S. T., & Guha, I. N. (2018). Multi organ assessment of compensated cirrhosis patients using quantitative magnetic resonance imaging. Journal of Hepatology, 69(5), 1015-1024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2018.05.037

Background and Aims: Advancing liver disease results in deleterious changes in a number of critical organs. The ability to measure structure, blood flow and tissue perfusion within multiple organs in a single scan has implications for determining the... Read More about Multi organ assessment of compensated cirrhosis patients using quantitative magnetic resonance imaging.