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Associations of insulin resistance-related indices with the risk and progression of cardiometabolic multimorbidity in individuals with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: a prospective cohort study.

Measuring central belly fat alongside insulin resistance better predicts heart and metabolic disease in fatty liver patients.

In 109,604 UK Biobank MASLD participants followed for 15.9 years, composite insulin resistance indices incorporating central adiposity (TyG-WHtR) best predicted cardiometabolic multimorbidity development and stage-specific progression, with HR 2.70 for the highest quartile. These findings support incorporating central adiposity-adjusted IR indices for cardiometabolic risk stratification in MASLD patients.

What the study was

Study design
Prospective cohort study with multi-state modeling
Population
UK Biobank participants with MASLD free of cardiometabolic disease at baseline (n=109,604)
Sample size
109604
Category
Prevention
Maturity
Validated
Journal
Cardiovascular Diabetology

Why it surfaced

Very large prospective UK Biobank study (n=109K) with long follow-up; TyG-WHtR as optimal IR risk marker for MASLD-CMM risk is immediately applicable for clinical risk stratification.

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