Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Risk of Heart Failure Among Medicare Beneficiaries

Autor: Marat Fudim, Lin Zhong, Kershaw V. Patel, Rohan Khera, Manal F. Abdelmalek, Anna Mae Diehl, Robert W. McGarrah, Jeroen Molinger, Cynthia A. Moylan, Vishal N. Rao, Kara Wegermann, Ian J. Neeland, Ethan A. Halm, Sandeep R. Das, Ambarish Pandey
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, Vol 10, Iss 22 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2047-9980
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.121.021654
Popis: Background Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and heart failure (HF) are increasing in prevalence. The independent association between NAFLD and downstream risk of HF and HF subtypes (HF with preserved ejection fraction and HF with reduced ejection fraction) is not well established. Methods and Results This was a retrospective, cohort study among Medicare beneficiaries. We selected Medicare beneficiaries without known prior diagnosis of HF. NAFLD was defined using presence of 1 inpatient or 2 outpatient claims using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD‐9‐CM), claims codes. Incident HF was defined using at least 1 inpatient or at least 2 outpatient HF claims during the follow‐up period (October 2015–December 2016). Among 870 535 Medicare patients, 3.2% (N=27 919) had a clinical diagnosis of NAFLD. Patients with NAFLD were more commonly women, were less commonly Black patients, and had a higher burden of comorbidities, such as diabetes, obesity, and kidney disease. Over a mean 14.3 months of follow‐up, patients with (versus without) baseline NAFLD had a significantly higher risk of new‐onset HF in unadjusted (6.4% versus 5.0%; P
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