Athanasios Vassilopoulos, Markos Kalligeros, Stephanos Vassilopoulos, Fadi Shehadeh, Gregorio Benitez, Matthew Kaczynski, Ingrid Lazaridou, Kittichai Promrat, Jack R Wands, Eleftherios Mylonakis
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of steatotic liver disease (SLD) among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) remains largely unknown. AIMS: To investigate the prevalence of SLD and liver fibrosis among patients with RA. METHODS: We utilized data from the United States (US)-based National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2017-2020 cycle. After applying established sample weights, we estimated the age-adjusted prevalence of SLD and its subclassifications (CAP ≥ 285 dB/m), high-risk NASH (FAST score) and liver fibrosis (LSM) among participants with self-reported RA...
March 2024: Digestive Diseases and Sciences