Obesity, Diabetes, Coffee, Tea, and Cannabis Use Alter Risk for Alcohol-Related Cirrhosis in 2 Large Cohorts of High-Risk Drinkers.



Whitfield, John B, Masson, Steven, Liangpunsakul, Suthat, Mueller, Sebastian, Aithal, Guruprasad P, Eyer, Florian, Gleeson, Dermot, Thompson, Andrew ORCID: 0000-0002-7087-9415, Stickel, Felix, Soyka, Michael
et al (show 18 more authors) (2020) Obesity, Diabetes, Coffee, Tea, and Cannabis Use Alter Risk for Alcohol-Related Cirrhosis in 2 Large Cohorts of High-Risk Drinkers. The American journal of gastroenterology, 116 (1). pp. 106-115.

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Abstract

INTRODUCTION:Sustained high alcohol intake is necessary but not sufficient to produce alcohol-related cirrhosis. Identification of risk factors, apart from lifetime alcohol exposure, would assist in discovery of mechanisms and prediction of risk. METHODS:We conducted a multicenter case-control study (GenomALC) comparing 1,293 cases (with alcohol-related cirrhosis, 75.6% male) and 754 controls (with equivalent alcohol exposure but no evidence of liver disease, 73.6% male). Information confirming or excluding cirrhosis, and on alcohol intake and other potential risk factors, was obtained from clinical records and by interview. Case-control differences in risk factors discovered in the GenomALC participants were validated using similar data from 407 cases and 6,573 controls from UK Biobank. RESULTS:The GenomALC case and control groups reported similar lifetime alcohol intake (1,374 vs 1,412 kg). Cases had a higher prevalence of diabetes (20.5% (262/1,288) vs 6.5% (48/734), P = 2.27 × 10) and higher premorbid body mass index (26.37 ± 0.16 kg/m) than controls (24.44 ± 0.18 kg/m, P = 5.77 × 10). Controls were significantly more likely to have been wine drinkers, coffee drinkers, smokers, and cannabis users than cases. Cases reported a higher proportion of parents who died of liver disease than controls (odds ratio 2.25 95% confidence interval 1.55-3.26). Data from UK Biobank confirmed these findings for diabetes, body mass index, proportion of alcohol as wine, and coffee consumption. DISCUSSION:If these relationships are causal, measures such as weight loss, intensive treatment of diabetes or prediabetic states, and coffee consumption should reduce the risk of alcohol-related cirrhosis.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: GenomALC Consortium
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 18 Sep 2020 10:04
Last Modified: 18 Jan 2023 23:32
DOI: 10.14309/ajg.0000000000000833
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3101675