Arterial stiffness as a complication of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

IF 3.8 3区医学 Q2 GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY

Expert Review of Gastroenterology & Hepatology Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-28 DOI:10.1080/17474124.2025.2471871

Alexios Giannakodimos, Evangelos Oikonomou, Panteleimon Pantelidis, Panagiotis Theofilis, Niki Katsiki, Athina Goliopoulou, Georgios E Zakynthinos, Emmanouil Korakas, Vasiliki Kalogera, Maciej Banach, Vaia Lampadiari, Eva Kassi, Ignatios Ikonomidis, Gerasimos Siasos

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Abstract

Introduction: The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to investigate the association of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) with arterial stiffness and enlighten on potential cardiometabolic co-factors.

Methods: A literature search in PubMed/Medline, Embase, Scopus, and Web of Science databases was conducted. All the observational studies comparing arterial stiffness indices between adults with Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), Metabolic Dysfunction Associated-Fatty Liver Disease (MAFLD), or MASLD and apparently healthy individuals with normal liver function were included. Pulse wave velocity (PWV) and augmentation index (AIx) were mainly used as arterial stiffness indices.

Results: Fourty one unique studies were included in the systematic review, with 27 deemed eligible for meta-analysis. Patients with MASLD had increased carotid-femoral PWV (14 studies, Mean difference (MD): 0.96 m/s, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.65-1.27, p < 0.001) compared with healthy individuals. This finding was independent from body mass index, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein, systolic blood pressure, and fasting plasma glucose. Moreover, patients with MASLD had higher brachial-ankle PWV (13 studies, MD: 78.14 cm/s, 95% CI 60.37-95.90, p < 0.001) and AIx (7 studies, MD: 3.85%, 95% CI 0.87-6.82, p = 0.0195) compared with controls.

Conclusions: MASLD is correlated with increased arterial stiffness. This relation is unaffected by common cardiometabolic risk factors.

Registration: PROSPERO (ID: CRD42023468258).

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Expert Review of Gastroenterology & Hepatology GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： The enormous health and economic burden of gastrointestinal disease worldwide warrants a sharp focus on the etiology, epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and development of new therapies. By the end of the last century we had seen enormous advances, both in technologies to visualize disease and in curative therapies in areas such as gastric ulcer, with the advent first of the H2-antagonists and then the proton pump inhibitors - clear examples of how advances in medicine can massively benefit the patient. Nevertheless, specialists face ongoing challenges from a wide array of diseases of diverse etiology.