Journal of Internal Medicine | 2021
Pulmonary hypertension is associated with an increased incidence of NAFLD: A retrospective cohort study of 18,910 patients
Abstract
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) represents a multicausal disease with increasing global incidence that eventually leads to right ventricular failure. In addition to cardiac sequelae, noncardiac comorbidities appear to be of increasing relevance, especially in times of improved therapeutic options that often result in long‐term survival. Here, we examined a potential association between PH and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) as well as liver cirrhosis in an outpatient cohort in Germany.