Research Article: Alanine transferase levels (ALT) and triglyceride-glucose index are risk factors for type 2 diabetes mellitus in obese patients
Abstract:
The role of liver steatosis and increased liver enzymes (ALT) in increasing incident type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is debated, because of their differential effects on different ethnicities and populations. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of elevated ALT in the development of T2DM in non-diabetic obese subjects receiving routine medical treatment.
Introduction:
Several cross-sectional and prospective studies have shown that deterioration of glucose tolerance and incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in the general population are associated with elevated liver enzymes, even though with some discrepancies among different ethnic groups [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]; ALT was the main enzyme involved in the majority of studies, while in others the enzyme was ?GT (?-glutamil transferase) [2,3,4,5,6,7]. Obesity is often accompanied by elevated liver enzymes [5, 6, 8], and bariatric…
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