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‹ Thu · 11 Jun 2026
Promising but preliminary

The role of MAFLD in predicting major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with stable COPD: a prospective cohort study

Liver disease in COPD patients signals dramatically elevated cardiovascular risk, warranting routine liver assessment.

In a prospective cohort of 168 stable COPD patients followed for 12 months, baseline MAFLD was independently associated with more than 4-fold increased risk of major adverse cardiovascular events and was the strongest predictor in Bayesian model averaging. This finding identifies MAFLD as an underrecognized cardiovascular risk biomarker in COPD that may warrant routine hepatic assessment in this population.

What the study was

Study design
Prospective cohort study
Population
Stable COPD patients; n=168; 12-month MACE follow-up
Sample size
168
Category
Diagnostics
Maturity
Exploratory
Journal
Frontiers in Medicine

Why it surfaced

Prospective design is a strength; small n=168 limits power; MAFLD-COPD-MACE intersection clinically relevant; Vietnamese single-center.

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