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ArticleNutrition & metabolism2025

The associations between diet-induced inflammation and the improvement or worsening of hepatic steatosis and fibrosis: a longitudinal analysis of RaNCD cohort study.

Mohammad Sedighi, Amir Saber, Amir Bagheri, Saba Hazratian, Yahya Pasdar, Farid Najafi, Mehdi Moradinazar, Davood Soleimani

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Mohammad SedighiNutritional Sciences Department, School of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Dolat-Abad Street, Isar Square, Kermanshah, Iran.
Amir SaberNutritional Sciences Department, School of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Dolat-Abad Street, Isar Square, Kermanshah, Iran.
Amir BagheriNutritional Sciences Department, School of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Dolat-Abad Street, Isar Square, Kermanshah, Iran.
Saba HazratianNutritional Sciences Department, School of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Dolat-Abad Street, Isar Square, Kermanshah, Iran.
Yahya PasdarResearch Center for Environmental Determinants of Health, Health Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
Farid NajafiResearch Center for Environmental Determinants of Health, Health Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
Mehdi MoradinazarResearch Center for Environmental Determinants of Health, Health Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
Davood SoleimaniNutritional Sciences Department, School of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Dolat-Abad Street, Isar Square, Kermanshah, Iran. Nut.davood@gmail.com.

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backgroundPersistent inflammation plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). We aimed to scrutinize the associations of diet-induced inflammation with the improvement or worsening of hepatic steatosis and fibrosis in MASLD.

methodsThis longitudinal study involved 2,537 participants from the Ravanser Non-Communicable Disease (RaNCD) cohort (2015-2023). Dietary intake was assessed using the 118-item food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), and diet-induced inflammation was determined using the dietary inflammatory index (DII). The AST to platelet ratio index (APRI) and Fibrosis-4 (FIB-4) were used as confirmed predictive indicators for hepatic fibrosis and the hepatic steatosis index (HSI) was used for hepatic steatosis.

resultsAdherence to an inflammatory diet independently increases the risk of worsening hepatic steatosis (RR:1.39; 95%CI: 1.02-1.93; P-value: 0.04) and reduces the risk of improving hepatic steatosis (RR: 66; 95% CI: 0.48-0.98; P-value: 0.01) compared to an anti-inflammatory diet. The DII scores did not show any connection to hepatic fibrosis, as determined by FIB-4 (β: - 1.08; 95%CI: - 2.43 to 0.27; P-value: 0.12) and APRI (β: 0.22; 95%CI: - 1.51 to 1.95; P-value: 0.80).

conclusionsThese results underscore the importance of dietary composition in managing hepatic steatosis and highlight the need for further research to explore the mechanisms underlying these associations.

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DietDietary inflammatory indexFatInflammationLiver fibrosisMASLD

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