Joint associations of metabolically healthy abdominal obesity and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease with prediabetes and diabetes in Chinese adults.
Junfeng ZhangQiaoyan XuFangfang LaiNing ChenMingzhu LinYongwen LiuWei ZhangChangqin LiuShunqin WangZhibin LiPublished in: BMJ open diabetes research & care (2021)
About 35% of subjects with MHAO accompanied by NAFLD showed excessive risk of prediabetes plus diabetes compared with MHAO and non-NAFLD. Thus, NAFLD should be screened and intervened even for those subjects with metabolically healthy obesity (MHO) and should be considered as one additional criterion when defining and diagnosing MHO.