[Prevalence and significance of type-2 diabetes mellitus in chronic liver disease, correlated with hepatitis C virus].
A high prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related chronic liver diseases has been reported in numerous studies. Other studies failed to confirm this observation. We have studied the relative prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in two groups of patients respectively presenting with HCV-related chronic liver disease (224 patients) and chronic liver diseases of other etiologies (30 hepatitis B virus-HBV-related chronic liver disease, 22 alcoholic liver cirrhosis), in order to confront them. Our study revealed a higher prevalence of diabetes mellitus in the group of patients with HCV-related chronic liver disease in comparison with the group of patients with chronic liver disease of other etiologies (32.5 vs 15.3%; p = 0.03). Patients with HBV-related liver disease had diabetes in 6.6% of cases, and the difference with patients with HCV-related disease was significant (p = 0.007). Our study confirms a higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in patients with HCV-related chronic liver disease. It could be suggested that type 2 diabetes mellitus in patients with HCV-related chronic liver disease could be facilitated by hepatic iron overload and mitochondrial damage.
Brischetto
Rosario
R
Unità Operativa Complessa di Medicina, Presidio Ospedaliero di Acireale CT.
Corno
Cristina
C
Amore
Maria Grazia
MG
Leotta
Salvatore
S
Pavone
Sebastiano
S
Bonsignore
Livio
L
Calcagno
Maria Pia
MP
Calcara
Giovanni
G
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000821:virology; D005260:Female; D019694:Hepatitis B, Chronic / Q000150:complications; D019698:Hepatitis C, Chronic / Q000150:complications*; D006519:Hepatitis, Alcoholic / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012802:Sicily / Q000453:epidemiology