Differential relationships of hepatic and epicardial fat to body composition in HIV
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Hallett, Travis R.
Park, Jakob
Czerwonka, Natalia
Weiss, Julian
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Fourman, L. T., M. T. Lu, H. Lee, K. V. Fitch, T. R. Hallett, J. Park, N. Czerwonka, et al. 2017. “Differential relationships of hepatic and epicardial fat to body composition in HIV.” Physiological Reports 5 (19): e13386. doi:10.14814/phy2.13386. http://dx.doi.org/10.14814/phy2.13386.Abstract
Abstract HIV‐infected patients commonly experience changes in central and peripheral fat content as well as ectopic fat accumulation. However, whether hepatic and epicardial fat stores relate differentially to body composition or how these associations are modified by HIV status has not been well explored. A previously recruited sample of 124 HIV‐infected patients and 58 healthy controls had undergone dual energy X‐ray absorptiometry (DEXA) and computed tomography (CT) from which body composition measures, liver–spleen ratio, and epicardial fat volume were obtained. Unique to the HIV‐infected group, there was a parabolic association between abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) area and liver–spleen ratio (P = 0.03, inflection point 324 cm2) such that hepatic fat content was greatest at the extremes of low and high SAT. A quadratic model also closely described the relationship between mean leg fat and liver–spleen ratio among patients with HIV (P = 0.02, inflection point 4.7 kg), again suggesting greater liver fat content with both low and high leg fat. Notably, an analogous relationship of epicardial fat with SAT was not evident among HIV‐infected individuals or healthy controls. In contrast, visceral adipose tissue (VAT) linearly related to both liver–spleen ratio in HIV and epicardial fat volume irrespective of HIV status in multivariable models. In conclusion, our analyses implicate both low and high SAT as risk factors for hepatic fat accumulation in HIV. These findings add to growing evidence of SAT dysfunction in the setting of HIV infection, and highlight key physiologic differences between hepatic and epicardial fat depots.Other Sources
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