RESEARCH ARTICLE
Insulin Growth Factor-1 as a Predictor for the Progression of Hepatic Disease in Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection
Amal Ahmed Mohamed1, Sherief Abd-Elsalam2, *, Mai M. El-Daly3, 4, Noha Kamal5, Salma Mohamed Saed6, Seham Mohamoud7, Hala Ali Abed8, Reda S. Abdelghany9, Shereen Helmy Ahmed10
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2021Volume: 11
First Page: 1
Last Page: 7
Publisher ID: TOBIOMJ-11-1
DOI: 10.2174/1875318302111010001
Article History:
Received Date: 18/09/2020Revision Received Date: 7/11/2020
Acceptance Date: 23/12/2020
Electronic publication date: 16/02/2021
Collection year: 2021
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background & Aims:
The aim of this study was to assess IGF-1 in chronic liver diseases associated with HBV infection and describe the impact of liver status on IGF-1 variables.
Methods:
This cohort study included 348 subjects and conducted between December 2018 and December 2019 at El-Sahel Teaching Hospital, Cairo, Egypt. Subjects were divided into 4 groups: group I included HBV positive hepatocellular carcinoma patients “HCC” (n= 87), group II included HBV positive patients with liver cirrhosis “LC” (n = 87), group III included chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients with neither HCC nor cirrhosis “CHB” (n = 87) and group IV of healthy volunteers as controls (n = 87). Serum IGF-1 was measured quantitatively using a commercially available enzyme immunoassay.
Results:
Serum levels of IGF-1 were measured in each of the 4 groups. The comparison showed marked differences in IGF1-related measures. It was found to be significantly reduced in HCC patients (32.08 ± 9.2 ng/ml), LC patients (50.6±14.1ng/ml) and CHB patients (61.4±14.3 ng/ml) in comparison to healthy subjects (140.4±49.9 ng/ml). The reduction of IGF-1 levels was also statistically significant between both HCC and LC patients and CHB patients also between HCC and LC patients.
Conclusion:
Serum IGF-1 levels are significantly reduced with the progression of hepatic disease in HBV patients and it may be a promising serological marker alone or in association with others for prediction of development of liver cirrhosis and HCC in chronic HBV patients.
