Joint associations of adiposity and alcohol consumption with liver disease-related morbidity and mortality risk: findings from the UK Biobank

• Published in: European journal of clinical nutrition Vol. 76; no. 1; pp. 74 - 83
• Main Authors: Inan-Eroglu, Elif, Huang, Bo-Huei, Ahmadi, Matthew N., Johnson, Nathan, El-Omar, Emad M., Stamatakis, Emmanuel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.01.2022; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 692/308/174; 692/699/1503/1607/1608; 692/699/1503/1607/2750; Adipose tissue; Adiposity; Alcohol; Alcohol Drinking - adverse effects; Alcohol Drinking - epidemiology; Alcohol use; Alcohols; Biological Specimen Banks; Body Mass Index; Body size; Body weight; Clinical Nutrition; Epidemiology; Fatalities; Fatty liver; Guidelines; Health risks; Humans; Incidence; Internal Medicine; Liver; Liver diseases; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Metabolic Diseases; Morbidity; Mortality; Mortality risk; Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease - complications; Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease - epidemiology; Obesity; Obesity - complications; Obesity - epidemiology; Overweight; Public Health; Risk Factors; Statistical models; United Kingdom - epidemiology; Waist Circumference; United Kingdom; United Kingdom > UK

Background The incidence of both non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and alcoholic fatty liver disease (ALD) are expected to grow as a consequence of the ongoing obesity and alcohol consumption trends. Objective We examined the joint associations of adiposity (body mass index (BMI) and waist c...