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. 2019 Jul 17;104(11):5120–5135. doi: 10.1210/jc.2018-02730

Table 6.

Lifetime Prevalence of Metabolic Involvement and Organ Abnormalities

Overall (N = 230) GL (n = 81) PL (n = 149)
n Percent n Percent Adjusted Percentagea n Percent Adjusted Percentagea
Diabetes and/or IR 134 58.3 47 58.0 75.7 87 58.4 51.8
One or more elevated laboratory values 209 90.9 75 92.6 96.5 134 89.9 85.5
 Tg >150 mg/dL 190 82.6 66 81.5 86.5 124 83.2 77.2
 Tg >500 mg/dL 93 40.4 41 50.6 63.4 52 34.9 32.1
 HbA1c >5.7% 143 62.2 43 53.1 60.6 100 67.1 59.6
 HbA1c >6.5% 114 49.6 35 43.2 54.1 79 53.0 45.6
 HbA1c >8.5% 78 33.9 28 34.6 41.6 50 33.6 28.2
 ALT >35 U/L 140 60.9 60 74.1 74.3 80 53.7 52.5
 ALT >55 U/L 88 38.3 43 53.1 47.1 45 30.2 30.0
 AST >35 U/L 112 48.7 50 61.7 58.5 62 41.6 42.3
 AST >48 U/L 73 31.7 33 40.7 35.5 40 26.8 28.5
One or more organ abnormalities 182 79.1 74 91.4 93.8 108 72.5 66.1
 Liver abnormalities 165 71.7 71 87.7 88.6 94 63.1 59.1
  Hepatic steatosisb 142 61.7 55 67.9 74.9 87 58.4 54.6
  Hepatomegalyc 99 43.0 57 70.4 70.6 42 28.2 28.0
  Cirrhosis 8 3.5 5 6.2 5.9 3 2.0 1.5
 Kidney abnormalities 93 40.4 44 54.3 67.5 49 32.9 28.3
  Nephropathyd 74 32.2 36 44.4 59.7 38 25.5 22.0
  Chronic renal failuree 10 4.3 5 6.2 11.4 5 3.4 3.4
  ESRD 8 3.5 5 6.2 11.4 3 2.0 2.5
  Transplant 1 0.4 1 1.2 2.4 0 0 0
  Otherf 28 12.2 17 21.0 13.9 11 7.4 5.8
 Heart abnormalities 70 30.4 28 34.6 51.3 42 28.2 21.8
  Coronary artery diseaseg 22 9.6 6 7.4 20.9 16 10.7 8.1
  Cardiac arrhythmiah 17 7.4 4 4.9 15.6 13 8.7 6.7
  Cardiomyopathyi 15 6.5 13 16.0 15.9 2 1.3 1.0
  Heart failure 9 3.9 0 0 0 9 6.0 4.6
  Transplant 1 0.4 0 0 0 1 0.7 0.5
  Otherj 27 11.7 10 12.3 12.4 17 11.4 9.4
 Pancreatitis 30 13.0 8 9.9 11.3 22 14.8 11.9

Abbreviations: ESRD, end-stage renal disease; IR, insulin resistance; Tg, triglycerides.

a

Age-adjusted lifetime prevalence accounting for variations in the distribution of age groups between patients with GL and PL.

b

Includes nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, and steatohepatitis.

c

Hepatic steatosis is the principle driver of hepatomegaly in lipodystrophy. However, a low percentage of patients may have hepatomegaly driven by other conditions.

d

Includes albuminuria, microalbuminuria, and proteinuria.

e

Includes mentions of chronic renal failure (recorded in open-text fields), kidney dysfunction (recorded in open-text fields), decreased kidney function (recorded in open-text fields), and ESRD (including kidney transplant).

f

Includes hematuria, kidney stones, nephromegaly, and renal hypoplasia.

g

Includes atherosclerosis, bypass surgery, ischemia, myocardial infarction, and probable anteroseptal infarct.

h

Includes atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, bradycardia, and tachycardia.

i

Includes ventricular hypertrophy.

j

Includes aortic insufficiency, aortic outflow murmur, aortic regurgitation, aortic stenosis, ascending aorta dilated, asymmetric septal hypertrophy with a sigmoid septum, atrial-level shunt and ventricular dilation, AV malformation, AV shunt, cardiomegaly, dilated left atrium, effusion pericardial, grade II/VI midsystolic murmur at the base of the left sternal border, heart murmurs, left ventricular relaxation deficit, mild mitral insufficiency, mild mitral valve regurgitation, mild tricuspid insufficiency, mild tricuspid valve regurgitation, mitral insufficiency, mitral valve insufficiency, mitral valve prolapse, mitral valve regurgitation, moderate mitral insufficiency, pulmonary AV malformation, pulmonic valve regurgitation, subaortic stenosis, subaortic ventricular septal defect, tricuspid insufficiency, tricuspid valve regurgitation, valvular heart disease, and ventricle diastolic-systolic dysfunction.