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Although psoriasis patients also present body composition changes (e.g., higher overall body fat, visceral fat and sarcopenia), and these have recently been reported as risk factors for hepatic fibrosis, to date, body composition has not been prospectively investigated in psoriasis in the context of liver fibrosis. In this study anthropometric assessment (body weight and body mass index (BMI)), body composition analysis (body fat%, visceral fat scores and muscle mass%), and liver stiffness measurements (using transient elastography [TE]) were done in 52 psoriasis patients undergoing methotrexate therapy. Fourteen patients (26.9%) had advanced (F3\u2013F4) liver fibrosis. There was no correlation between the patients\u2019 liver stiffness values and the cumulative MTX doses. On the other hand, patients with higher BMI values, total body fat% and visceral fat scores were significantly more likely to present with higher hepatic stiffness values. BMI was a significant predictor of hepatic fibrosis in both genders. In males, body fat% (R = 0.578, p = 0.002) and, especially, visceral fat scores (R = 0.716, p &lt; 0.001) had statistically significant correlation with stiffness scores, while in females only visceral fat scores were statistically significant predictors of the liver stiffness values (R = 0.452, p = 0.023), and body fat% was not (R = 0.187, p = 0.382). Our results suggest that anthropometric data should be assessed differently in female and male psoriasis patients when evaluating liver fibrosis risk.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/life11080763","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,29]],"date-time":"2021-07-29T10:47:46Z","timestamp":1627555666000},"page":"763","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Association of Nonalcoholic Hepatic Fibrosis with Body Composition in Female and Male Psoriasis Patients"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Kinga","family":"Brunner","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Dermatology, Venerology and Oncodermatology, Medical School, University of P\u00e9cs, Ak\u00e1c u. 1., 7632 P\u00e9cs, Hungary"},{"name":"Institute of Nutritional Science and Dietetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of P\u00e9cs, V\u00f6r\u00f6smarty u. 3., 7621 P\u00e9cs, Hungary"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3184-8376","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"P\u00e9ter","family":"Ol\u00e1h","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Dermatology, Venerology and Oncodermatology, Medical School, University of P\u00e9cs, Ak\u00e1c u. 1., 7632 P\u00e9cs, Hungary"},{"name":"Department of Dermatology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University, Moorenstr. 5, 40225 D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mehdi","family":"Moezzi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Dermatology, Venerology and Oncodermatology, Medical School, University of P\u00e9cs, Ak\u00e1c u. 1., 7632 P\u00e9cs, Hungary"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6943-6756","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gabriella","family":"P\u00e1r","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"First Department of Medicine, Medical School, University of P\u00e9cs, Ifj\u00fas\u00e1g \u00fat 13., 7624 P\u00e9cs, Hungary"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2217-7686","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"\u00c1ron","family":"Vincze","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"First Department of Medicine, Medical School, University of P\u00e9cs, Ifj\u00fas\u00e1g \u00fat 13., 7624 P\u00e9cs, Hungary"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zita","family":"Breitenbach","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Nutritional Science and Dietetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of P\u00e9cs, V\u00f6r\u00f6smarty u. 3., 7621 P\u00e9cs, Hungary"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3286-8846","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rolland","family":"Gyulai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Dermatology, Venerology and Oncodermatology, Medical School, University of P\u00e9cs, Ak\u00e1c u. 1., 7632 P\u00e9cs, Hungary"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1165","DOI":"10.1111\/ijd.14032","article-title":"Stress and psoriasis","volume":"57","author":"Rousset","year":"2018","journal-title":"Int. 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