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Erschienen in: Diabetologia 1/2016

01.01.2016 | Meta-Analysis

Circulating leptin in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

verfasst von: Stergios A. Polyzos, Konstantinos N. Aronis, Jannis Kountouras, Dimitrios D. Raptis, Maria F. Vasiloglou, Christos S. Mantzoros

Erschienen in: Diabetologia | Ausgabe 1/2016

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Abstract

Aims/hypothesis

Clinical data regarding circulating leptin levels in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are conflicting. The purpose of this meta-analysis was to compare leptin levels between the following groups: patients with biopsy-proven NAFLD vs controls; simple steatosis (SS) patients vs controls; non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) patients vs controls and NASH patients vs SS patients.

Methods

We performed a systematic search in PubMed, Scopus and the Cochrane Library. We analysed 33 studies, published between 1999 and 2014, including 2,612 individuals (775 controls and 1,837 NAFLD patients).

Results

Higher circulating leptin levels were observed in NAFLD patients vs controls (standardised mean difference [SMD] 0.640; 95% CI 0.422, 0.858), SS patients vs controls (SMD 0.358; 95% CI 0.043, 0.673), NASH patients vs controls (SMD 0.617; 95% CI 0.403, 0.832) and NASH patients vs SS patients (SMD 0.209; 95% CI 0.023, 0.395). These results remained essentially unchanged after excluding studies involving paediatric or adolescent populations and/or individuals undergoing bariatric surgery. There was moderate-to-severe heterogeneity among studies in all comparisons, but no significant publication bias was detected. Meta-regression analysis demonstrated that BMI was inversely associated with leptin SMD and accounted for 26.5% (p = 0.014) and 32.7% (p = 0.021) of the between-study variance in the comparison between NASH patients and controls and NAFLD patients and controls, respectively. However, when bariatric studies were excluded, BMI did not significantly explain the between-study variance.

Conclusions/interpretation

Circulating leptin levels were higher in patients with NAFLD than in controls. Higher levels of circulating leptin were associated with increased severity of NAFLD, and the association remained significant after the exclusion of studies involving paediatric or adolescent populations and morbidly obese individuals subjected to bariatric surgery.
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Metadaten
Titel
Circulating leptin in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
verfasst von
Stergios A. Polyzos
Konstantinos N. Aronis
Jannis Kountouras
Dimitrios D. Raptis
Maria F. Vasiloglou
Christos S. Mantzoros
Publikationsdatum
01.01.2016
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Diabetologia / Ausgabe 1/2016
Print ISSN: 0012-186X
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-0428
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-015-3769-3

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