Relations of liver fat with prevalent and incident chronic kidney disease in the Framingham Heart Study: A secondary analysis.
Robert M WilechanskyAlison PedleyJoseph M MassaroUdo HoffmannEmelia J BenjaminMichelle T LongPublished in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2019)
In this community-based cohort study, we did not observe significant associations between liver fat and prevalent or incident CKD with a median follow-up time of 12.5 years. The association between NAFLD and CKD may be accounted for by shared risk factors; confirmatory studies are needed.