{"id":233701,"date":"2026-03-20T03:20:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/liver-stiffness-and-all-cause-mortality-in-individuals-with-diabetes"},"modified":"2026-03-20T03:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:20:35","slug":"liver-stiffness-and-all-cause-mortality-in-individuals-with-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/liver-stiffness-and-all-cause-mortality-in-individuals-with-diabetes","title":{"rendered":"Liver Stiffness and All-Cause Mortality in Individuals With Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/liver-stiffness-and-all-cause-mortality-in-individuals-with-diabetes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liver stiffness identified by elastography was linked to a greater risk of death among adults with diabetes, suggesting elastography may help identify high-risk individuals.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Question Is a higher liver stiffness measurement (LSM), which indicates liver fibrosis, associated with an increase in all-cause mortality in unselected patients with diabetes?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Findings<\/strong> In this cohort study of 4,102 adults, high LSM was an independent risk factor for all-cause mortality in diabetes, even after a relatively short follow-up. Moreover, the coexistence of liver fibrosis and uncontrolled hemoglobin A<sub>1c<\/sub> level was associated with a higher risk of all-cause mortality compared with each condition individually.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meaning<\/strong> Findings of this study suggest that using LSM to screen for liver fibrosis as part of routine diabetes management could aid in early identification of patients with high mortality risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liver stiffness identified by elastography was linked to a greater risk of death among adults with diabetes, suggesting elastography may help identify high-risk individuals. Question Is a higher liver stiffness measurement (LSM), which indicates liver fibrosis, associated with an increase in all-cause mortality in unselected patients with diabetes? Findings In this cohort study of 4,102 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}