Through a recent study it was found that adults with newly diagnosed diabetes are likely to have long-term risk of serious liver disease, including cirrhosis and liver failure.

The study throws light on affects on liver and previous facts already suggests that impact it lays on the eye, kidney and blood vessels.

The study was performed over 13 years by St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto that saw an involvement of 438 069 adults aged 30 to 75 years who were newly diagnosed diabetes over a 13 year period and a comparable group of 2 059 709 people without diabetes.

It was further observed that 8 per 10 000 person-years for serious liver disease in people with newly diagnosed diabetes compared to a rate of 4 per 10 000 person years among non-diabetic controls.

Dr. Joel Ray and Dr. Gillian Booth of St. Michael’s Hospital stated the reason as, “We posit that the presence of overt diabetes reflects more severe insulin resistance, a greater fatty load in the liver and potentially worse hepatic inflammation and injury.”