Plasma betatrophin levels in patients with liver cirrhosis
Plasma betatrophin levels in patients with liver cirrhosis作者机构:Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit Marqués de Valdecilla University HospitalInstituto de Investigación Sanitaria ValdecillaAvenida Valdecilla s/n 39008 Santander Cantabria Spain Endocrinology Unit Marqués de Valdecilla University HospitalInstituto de Investigación Sanitaria Valdecilla Avenida Valdecilla s/n 39008 Santander Cantabria Spain
出 版 物:《World Journal of Gastroenterology》 (世界胃肠病学杂志(英文版))
年 卷 期:2015年第21卷第37期
页 面:10662-10668页
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学科分类:1002[医学-临床医学] 100201[医学-内科学(含:心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 10[医学]
主 题:Liver cirrhosis Betatrophin Insulin resistance Bet
摘 要:AIM: To investigate the plasma levels of betatrophin in patients with ***: Forty patients diagnosed at the clinic with liver cirrhosis according to biological, ultrasonographic,or histological criteria were *** severity of cirrhosis was classified according to Pugh s modification of Child s classification and MELD score. Insulin resistance(IR) was assessed by the Homeostasis Model Assessment. A total of 20 patients showed a MELD score higher than 14. The control group consisted in 15 sex-and aged-matched *** blood samples were obtained for subsequent analysis. Serum insulin was determined by Liaison automated immune chemiluminiscence assay(DiaSorin S.p.A.) using a sandwich assay. The sensitivity of the assay was 0.2 μU/mL. The intra and interassay variation coefficients were 4% and 10%,respectively. The normal values were between 2 and17 μU/mL. Human active betatrophin was analyzed by specific quantitative sandwich ELISA(Aviscera Bioscience). The sensitivity of the assay was 0.4 ng/mL, and the intra and interassay reproducibility were 6% and 10%, ***: Plasma betatrophin levels were significantly increased in patients with cirrhosis compared with those in healthy subjects(P = 0.0001). Betatrophin levels were also associated with disease severity, being higher in Child-Pugh C patients compared to Child-Pugh B(P 0.0005) and in patients who displayed a MELD score higher than 14 points compared to patients with lower punctuation(P = 0.01). In addition, we found a positive correlation between plasma betatrophin levels and the severity of cirrhosis according to Child-Pugh classification(r = 0.53; P 0.01) or MELD score(r = 0.45; P 0.01). In the overall cohort, a moderate correlation between serum betatrophin and plasmatic bilirrubin(r= 0.39; P 0.01) has been observed, as well as an inverse correlation between betatrophin and albumin(r =-0.41; P 0.01) or prothrombin time(r =-0.44;P 0.01). Moreover, insulin