Patients with celiac disease are at high risk of developing metabolic syndrome and fatty liver
| Title: | Patients with celiac disease are at high risk of developing metabolic syndrome and fatty liver |
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| Authors: | Ashish Agarwal, Alka Singh, Wajiha Mehtab, Vipin Gupta, Ashish Chauhan, Mahendra Singh Rajput, Namrata Singh, Vineet Ahuja, Govind K. Makharia |
| Source: | Intestinal Research, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 106-114 (2021) |
| Publisher Information: | Korean Association for the Study of Intestinal Diseases, 2021. |
| Publication Year: | 2021 |
| Collection: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology |
| Subject Terms: | diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, body mass index, obesity, fatty liver, Medicine, Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology, RC799-869 |
| More Details: | Background/Aims Gluten-free diet has an excess of fats and simple sugars and puts patients with celiac disease at risk of metabolic complications including metabolic syndrome and fatty liver. We assessed prevalence of metabolic syndrome and fatty liver in two cohorts of celiac disease. Methods Study was done in 2 groups. In group 1, 54 treatment naïve patients with celiac disease were recruited. Of them, 44 returned after 1-year of gluten-free diet and were reassessed. In group 2, 130 celiac disease patients on gluten-free diet for ≥1 year were recruited. All patients were assessed for anthropometric and metabolic parameters and fatty liver. Metabolic syndrome was defined as per consensus definition for Asian Indians. Fatty liver was defined as controlled attenuation parameter value >263 decibels by FibroScan. Results In group 1, of 44 treatment naïve patients with celiac disease, metabolic syndrome was present in 5 patients (11.4%) at baseline and 9 (18.2%) after 1 year of gluten-free diet. Patients having fatty liver increased from 6 patients (14.3%) at baseline to 13 (29.5%) after 1year of gluten-free diet (P=0.002). In group 2, of 130 patients with celiac disease on gluten-free diet for a median duration of 4 years, 30 out of 114 (26.3%) and 30 out of 130 patients (23%) had metabolic syndrome and fatty liver, respectively. Conclusions Patients with celiac disease are at high risk of developing metabolic syndrome and fatty liver, which increases further with gluten-free diet. These patients should be assessed for nutritional and metabolic features and counseled about balanced diet and physical activity regularly. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 1598-9100 2288-1956 |
| Relation: | http://www.irjournal.org/upload/pdf/ir-2019-00136.pdf; https://doaj.org/toc/1598-9100; https://doaj.org/toc/2288-1956 |
| DOI: | 10.5217/ir.2019.00136 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/7045ca4e558f4958b8d339fa9cca564b |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.7045ca4e558f4958b8d339fa9cca564b |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| ISSN: | 15989100 22881956 |
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| DOI: | 10.5217/ir.2019.00136 |
| Published in: | Intestinal Research |
| Language: | English |