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P0507
EFFECTS OF VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTATION ON LIVER STIFFNESS
IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC LIVER DISEASES
A. K¨ onig1, C.S. Stokes1, M. Krawczyk1, F. Lammert1, F. Gr ¨ unhage1.
1Medical Department II, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg,
Homburg, Germany
E-mail: [email protected]
Background and Aims: Vitamin D deficiency is common in
patients with chronic liver diseases (CLD) and unfavorable genetic
polymorphisms of genes controlling vitamin D metabolism have
been associated with increased liver stiffness in patients with CLD
(Gr ¨ unhage et al. Hepatology 2012; 56: 1883–91). No data on the
effect of vitamin D supplementation on liver stiffness is available.
Our aim was to analyse patients with CLD with respect to vitamin D
and liver phenotypes.
Methods: Patients were randomly retrieved in our hospital
data management system and included if they fulfilled the
characteristics of at least one of the following groups. Group 1
consists of patients with vitamin D deficiency (<20 ng/ml) who
received vitamin D supplements; group 2 was defined as patients
with deficiency who did not receive any supplementation,
and group 3 comprised patients without vitamin D deficiency
(vitamin D levels >20 ng/ml). Patient characteristics such as age,
gender, etiology of liver disease as well as baseline parameters (liver
stiffness, AST, ALT, GGT) and follow-up parameters were analysed
in pairwise comparisons.
Results: We included 100 patients in groups 1 and 2 but we were
only able to identify 33 patients with CLD who presented with
normal vitamin D levels without supplementation, reflecting the
increased incidence of vitamin D deficiency in this population.
In all three groups, patients with chronic hepatitis C virus
infection represented the largest subgroup (41%, 55%, 64%). The
supplementation of vitamin D for at least 6 months resulted in
a significant rise of vitamin D levels in group 1 (10.6±5.2 vs
32.9±14.8). Interestingly, these patients also presented with
a significant decrease in median liver stiffness (16.0±19.9 kPa
vs. 12.9±11.7 kPa; P = 0.02), while no significant changes were
detected in pairwise comparisons in groups 2 and 3 (both
P > 0.05). Interestingly, ALT declined significantly in patients with
supplementation (66±74 U/L vs. 49±41 U/L, P = 0.01), but also in
patients of group 2 (67±80 U/L vs. 49±49 U/L; P = 0.03) but patients
without vitamin D deficiency and without supplementation showed
no change (P > 0.05).
Conclusions: Our data indicate that vitamin D supplementation
might have an influence on liver stiffness in patients with CLD
independent from improvement of liver function tests, consistent
with our findings in preclinical models (Hochrath et al. 2014).
Prospective trials are mandatory to assess the therapeutic potential
of vitamin D in patients with chronic liver diseases.
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