Genetic Study of Fatty Liver and Blood Clotting Risk in Lombardy
Uses genetic testing to assess risk of liver and clotting complications in fatty liver.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: The Liver BIoBank Lombardia of Fatty Liver
Key facts
- Where
- Milan, ItalySee the site
Could this be for you?
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 40 and 60 years old?
Source: NCT06566105, who can take part
Where in Italy
- Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico - Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico di natura pubblicaMilan, ItalyTaking people
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
- Trial code
- NCT06566105
- Record updated
- 18 November 2025
- Original description
NAFLD is most frequently linked to excess adiposity, insulin resistance and cardiometabolic risk factors, it has become the leading cause of liver disease worldwide, and is associated with increased mortality due to multiple causes. HFC has a strong genetic component and the investigators recently showed that it plays a causal role in determining progressive liver disease and insulin resistance.Read full original descriptionShow less
The Liver BIoBank Lombardia Genomic Cohort Study (LIVER-BIBLE): Personalized Medicine for the Management of Hepatic and Cardiovascular Thrombotic Complications of Fatty Liver
NAFLD is most frequently linked to excess adiposity, insulin resistance and cardiometabolic risk factors, it has become the leading cause of liver disease worldwide, and is associated with increased mortality due to multiple causes. HFC has a strong genetic component and the investigators recently showed that it plays a causal role in determining progressive liver disease and insulin resistance.
The genetic risk score predicting liver fat content (HFC-GRS) improves the stratification of liver related events, and the investigators have preliminary data on new common and rare variants that contribute to NAFLD susceptibility, and on a new non-invasive circulating biomarker associated with hepatic fat and lipotoxicity (Interleukin-32). However, no data are yet available on the causal role of hepatic fat on the procoagulant state associated with NAFLD, which could participate to liver damage and is a causal factor in atherothrombotic complications. The aim of the study is to examine the potential application of a precision medicine approach to the improvement of stratification of the risk of liver-related and cardiovascular thrombotic complications of hepatic fat accumulation (HFC) and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), with a special focus on the role of procoagulant imbalance in mediating the at-risk phenotypes.
Inclusion: Blood donors aged between 40 and 65 years presence of clinical diagnosis of overweight or obesity (body mass index-BMI > 25 kg/m2),; increased fasting blood glucose or T2D (fasting blood glucose ≥100mg/dl) or dyslipidemia (triglycerides≥150mg/dl, HDL<45/55 in M/F) or arterial hypertension (n = 2,452, 11.8% of the entire cohort).
Exclusion: subjects suffering from chronic degenerative diseases, except hypertension in good compensation and diabetes type 2 mellitus which does not require pharmacological therapy (as is already common practice for eligibility for donation of blood); donors aged > 65 and < 40 to avoid the introduction of bias.