Relationship Between Vitamin D Deficiency and Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Cross-Sectional Study From a Tertiary Care Center in Northern India. 2023

Manoj Kumar, and Ashwin Parchani, and Ravi Kant, and Arindam Das
Department of General Medicine, Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences, Saifai, IND.

Background Vitamin D levels are strongly associated with myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease, heart dysfunction, and even mortality. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a prevalent hepatic illness whose incidence has grown dramatically over the past several decades. Methodology This observational, cross-sectional study was conducted over 1.5 years (January 2019 to June 2020) at the Department of General Medicine of a tertiary care hospital in northern India on 100 adult patients with NAFLD admitted to the emergency ward, intensive care unit, and medical ward. Results In our study, of the 100 patients, 45.0%, 16.0%, and 39.0% of patients exhibited vitamin D deficiency, insufficiency, and sufficiency, respectively. Vitamin D deficiency was the highest among those aged 41-50 (54.2%) and lowest among those aged 30-40 (29.0%). We observed that vitamin D deficiency was less prevalent in people with a normal body mass index (39.1%) than in those who were overweight (91.7%). There was a significant (p < 0.05) association between the severity of vitamin D deficiency and the presence of hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, and ascites. Overall, the incidence of fatty liver was 49% among patients. There was a significant (p = 0.0001) correlation between fatty liver and serum vitamin D levels. The association between the proportion of patients with fatty liver and the degree of vitamin D deficiency was found to be significant (p = 0.04). The relationship between the distribution of patients according to insulin resistance and the degree of vitamin D deficiency was also statistically significant (p < 0.001). Conclusions Vitamin D deficiency is associated with an increased risk of NAFLD, as well as with the severity of NAFLD.

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