Fatty liver index and risk of hypertension

Commentary

Little data are showing the association between NAFLD and hypertension in a large-scale cohort study. J. H. Roth et al. (Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea) evaluated the ability of the fatty liver index to predict the development of hypertension in healthy individuals, in a large cohort of 334,280 healthy individuals without known comorbidities.

In this healthy Korean population, higher fatty liver index was independently associated with increased risk of hypertension.