Re: psc complications/diabetes

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> -----Original Message-----

> I have had the same questions as Phil. Is there a higher prevalence

of diabetes among PSC'ers?

>

> I found this Feb 2000 study from Mayo -

CONCLUSIONS: 1) The risk of diabetes is not increased in patients with

> liver cirrhosis due to cholestatic liver disease but is in patients

with liver cirrhosis due to hepatitis C or alcoholic liver disease; 2)

> cofactors (age, sex, body mass index, hepatitis G virus coinfection,

> hepatitis C virus genotype, or HLA-DR3/DR4) did not explain the

> increased risk of diabetes in patients with hepatitis C; 3) diabetes

> before liver transplantation did not change the outcome at 1 year

after transplantation or survival.

Barb -

Thanks so much for your research and help!

Joanne

(, Ca)