Hepatic Steatosis : CT-Based Prevalence in Adults in China and the United States and Associations With Age, Sex, and Body Mass Index

BACKGROUND. Calibrated CT fat fraction (FFCT) measurements derived from un-enhanced abdominal CT reliably reflect liver fat content, allowing large-scale population-level investigations of steatosis prevalence and associations. OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to compare the prevalence of hepatic steatosis, as assessed by calibrated CT measurements, between population-based Chinese and U.S. cohorts, and to investigate in these populations the relationship of steatosis with age, sex, and body mass index (BMI). METHODS. This retrospective study included 3176 adults (1985 women and 1191 men) from seven Chinese provinces and 8748 adults (4834 women and 3914 men) from a single U.S. medical center, all drawn from previous studies. All participants were at least 40 years old and had undergone unenhanced abdominal CT in previous studies. Liver fat content measurements on CT were cross-calibrated to MRI proton density fat fraction measurements using phantoms and expressed as adjusted FFCT measurements. Mild, moderate, and severe steatosis were defined as adjusted FFCT of 5.0-14.9%, 15.0-24.9%, and 25.0% or more, respectively. The two cohorts were compared. RESULTS. In the Chinese and U.S. cohorts, the median adjusted FFCT for women was 4.7% and 4.8%, respectively, and that for men was 5.8% and 6.2%, respectively. In the Chinese and U.S. cohorts, steatosis prevalence for women was 46.3% and 48.7%, respectively, whereas that for men was 58.9% and 61.9%, respectively. Severe steatosis prevalence was 0.9% and 1.8% for women and 0.2% and 2.6% for men in the Chinese and U.S. cohorts, respectively. Adjusted FFCT did not vary across age decades among women or men in the Chinese cohort, although it increased across age decades among women and men in the U.S. cohort. Adjusted FFCT and BMI exhibited weak correlation (r = 0.312-0.431). Among participants with normal BMI, 36.8% and 38.5% of those in the Chinese and U.S. cohorts, respectively, had mild steatosis, and 3.0% and 1.5% of those in the Chinese and U.S. cohorts, respectively, had moderate or severe steatosis. Among U.S. participants with a BMI of 40.0 or greater, 17.7% had normal liver content. CONCLUSION. Steatosis and severe steatosis had higher prevalence in the U.S. cohort than in the Chinese cohort in both women and men. BMI did not reliably predict steatosis. CLINICAL IMPACT. The findings provide new information on the dependence of hepatic steatosis on age, sex, and BMI.

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CommentIn: AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2021 Dec 15;:. - PMID 34910544

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:218

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AJR. American journal of roentgenology - 218(2022), 5 vom: 09. Mai, Seite 846-857

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Guo, Zhe [VerfasserIn]
Blake, Glen M [VerfasserIn]
Graffy, Peter M [VerfasserIn]
Sandfort, Veit [VerfasserIn]
Summers, Ronald M [VerfasserIn]
Li, Kai [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Shaoqi [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Yizhong [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Jun [VerfasserIn]
Shao, Jiman [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Yonghong [VerfasserIn]
Qu, Haibo [VerfasserIn]
Li, Baoqing [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, Xiaoguang [VerfasserIn]
Pickhardt, Perry J [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Age
Body mass index
Journal Article
Liver fat content
Quantitative CT
Sex

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Date Completed 26.04.2022

Date Revised 09.05.2022

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2021 Dec 15;:. - PMID 34910544

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.2214/AJR.21.26728

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NLM333544188