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ArticleInternal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)2025

Autoimmune Hepatitis with Metabolic Dysfunction-associated Fatty Liver Disease.

Atsushi Takahashi, Hiromasa Ohira, Kazumichi Abe, Mikio Zeniya, Masanori Abe, Teruko Arinaga-Hino, Nobuhiro Nakamoto, Akinobu Takaki, Jong-Hon Kang, Satoru Joshita and 5 more

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Article in Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  2. Steatotic Liver Disease at Primary Biliary Cholangitis Diagnosis: Association With Ursodeoxycholic Acid Response and Outcomes.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Atsushi TakahashiDepartment of Gastroenterology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Japan.
Hiromasa OhiraDepartment of Gastroenterology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Japan.
Kazumichi AbeDepartment of Gastroenterology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Japan.
Mikio ZeniyaAkasaka Sanno Medical Center, Japan.
Masanori AbeDepartment of Gastroenterology and Metabology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan.
Teruko Arinaga-HinoDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan.
Nobuhiro NakamotoDepartment of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan.
Akinobu TakakiDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Japan.
Jong-Hon KangCenter for Gastroenterology, Teine Keijinkai Hospital, Japan.
Satoru JoshitaDepartment of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Japan.
Yoshiyuki SuzukiDepartment of Hepatology, Toranomon Hospital, Japan.
Kazuhiko KoikeDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The Third Hospital of Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan.
Ayano InuiDepartment of Pediatric Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Saiseikai Yokohamashi Tobu Hospital, Japan.
Atsushi TanakaDepartment of Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Japan.
Japan Autoimmune Hepatitis Study group

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objective Metabolic-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) has only recently been proposed; therefore, the characteristics of patients with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) and MAFLD remain unclear. This study evaluated the effect of MAFLD on AIH patients with AIH. Methods We reevaluated the Japanese Nationwide Survey of AIH in 2018, which involved a survey of patients diagnosed with AIH between 2014 and 2017. We categorized patients with AIH according to the presence or absence of MAFLD and compared the clinical characteristics between the two groups. Results A total of 427 patients (77 men and 350 women) were included in this study. The overall prevalence of MAFLD was 10.5%. Compared to AIH patients without MAFLD, AIH patients with MAFLD had the following characteristics at the time of the AIH diagnosis: (1) a higher body mass index, (2) a higher prevalence of hypertension, (3) mild elevation of hepatobiliary enzymes and total bilirubin, and (4) histologically progressive fibrosis. However, the levels of hepatobiliary enzymes and total bilirubin after treatment were significantly higher in AIH patients with MAFLD than in those without MAFLD. Conclusion AIH patients with MAFLD had characteristics different from those of AIH patients without MAFLD. These findings could help increase our understanding of patients with AIH with MAFLD.

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Fatty LiverHepatitis, AutoimmuneMetabolic DiseasesAdultAgedBilirubinBody Mass IndexFemaleHumansHypertensionJapanMaleMiddle AgedPrevalenceBilirubinautoimmune hepatitis (AIH)metabolic-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD)nationwide survey

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PMID38960681
PMCPMC11867740

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