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Cardiovascular disease, cancer and mortality among people with type 2 diabetes and alcoholic or non-alcoholic fatty liver disease hospital admission

Wild, Sarah H.; Walker, Jeremy J.; Morling, Joanne R.; McAllister, David A.; Colhoun, Helen; Farran, Bassam; McGurnaghan, Stuart; McCrimmon, Rory; Read, Stephanie H.; Sattar, Naveed; Byrne, Christopher D.

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Authors

Sarah H. Wild

Jeremy J. Walker

JOANNE MORLING JOANNE.MORLING@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology

David A. McAllister

Helen Colhoun

Bassam Farran

Stuart McGurnaghan

Rory McCrimmon

Stephanie H. Read

Naveed Sattar

Christopher D. Byrne



Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To describe associations between alcoholic fatty liver disease (ALD) or non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) hospital admission and cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer, and mortality in people with T2DM.
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: We performed a retrospective cohort study using linked population-based routine data from the diabetes register, hospital, cancer and death records for people aged 40-89 years, diagnosed with T2DM in Scotland 2004-2013 who had one or more hospital admission records. Liver disease and outcomes were identified using International Classification of Diseases codes. We estimated hazard ratios from Cox proportional hazards models, adjusted for key risk factors (aHRs).
RESULTS: There were 134,368 people with T2DM (1707 with ALD and 1452 with NAFLD) with mean follow-up of 4.3 years for CVD and 4.7 years for mortality. Among people with ALD, NAFLD or without liver disease hospital records respectively there were: 378, 320 and 21,873 CVD events, 268, 176 and 15,101 cancers and 724, 221 and 16,203 deaths. For ALD and NAFLD respectively, aHRs (95% CIs) compared to the group with no record of liver disease were: 1.59 (1.43, 1.76) and 1.70 (1.52, 1.90), for CVD; 40.3 (28.8, 56.5) and 19.12(11.71 31.2), for hepatocellular cancer (HCC); 1.28 (1.12, 1.47) and 1.10 (0.94, 1.29) for non-HCC cancer; 4.86 (4.50, 5.24) and 1.60 (1.40, 1.83) for all-cause mortality.
CONCLUSIONS: Hospital records of ALD or NAFLD are associated, to varying degrees, with increased risk of CVD, cancer and mortality in people with T2DM.

Citation

Wild, S. H., Walker, J. J., Morling, J. R., McAllister, D. A., Colhoun, H., Farran, B., …Byrne, C. D. (2018). Cardiovascular disease, cancer and mortality among people with type 2 diabetes and alcoholic or non-alcoholic fatty liver disease hospital admission. Diabetes Care, 41(2), https://doi.org/10.2337/dc17-1590

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Oct 20, 2017
Online Publication Date Nov 22, 2017
Publication Date Feb 1, 2018
Deposit Date Oct 23, 2017
Publicly Available Date Nov 22, 2017
Journal Diabetes Care
Print ISSN 0149-5992
Electronic ISSN 1935-5548
Publisher American Diabetes Association
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 41
Issue 2
DOI https://doi.org/10.2337/dc17-1590
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/963004
Publisher URL http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/41/2/341
Contract Date Oct 23, 2017