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Table 2 Characteristics of the 13,737 subjects (6,318 females and 7,419 males) focusing on the presence of fatty liver disease (FLD) and its association with four categorized variables

From: Helicobacter pylori infection is not associated with fatty liver disease including non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a large-scale cross-sectional study in Japan

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Female

Male

Variables

FLD(N = 1456)

non-FLD(N = 4862)

pvalue

FLD(N = 3498)

non-FLD(N = 3921)

pvalue

MS

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<0.0001*

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<0.0001*

Non-MS

1391 (22.3 %)

4860 (77.6 %)

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2945 (43.5 %)

3832 (56.5 %)

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MS

65 (97.0 %)

2 (3.0 %)

 

553 (86.1 %)

89 (13.9 %)

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Alcohol

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<0.0001*

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<0.0001*

Non-drinker

884 (25.3 %)

2604 (74.7 %)

 

951 (50.8 %)

923 (49.3 %)

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Occasional-drinking

368 (20.2 %)

1456 (79.8 %)

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1114 (49.9 %)

1120 (50.1 %)

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Daily-drinker

204 (20.3 %)

802 (79.7 %)

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1433 (43.3 %)

1878 (56.7 %)

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Smoking

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0.0467

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0.0045*

Current-smoker

123 (27.8 %)

319 (72.2 %)

 

1116 (49.3 %)

1147 (50.7 %)

 

Former-smoker

174 (23.2 %)

577 (76.8 %)

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1317 (47.6 %)

1450 (52.4 %)

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Never-smoker

1159 (22.6 %)

3966 (77.4 %)

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1065 (44.6 %)

1324 (55.4 %)

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H. pylori Ab

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<0.0001*

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0.6446

Negative

1003 (21.5 %)

3665 (78.5 %)

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2474 (47.0 %)

2793 (53.0 %)

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Positive

453 (27.5 %)

1197 (72.6 %)

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1024 (47.6 %)

1128 (52.4 %)

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  1. FLD: fatty liver disease, MS: metabolic syndrome, Ab: antibody. By applying the Fisher’s exact test, p values were calculated. The level of significance was set below 0.01 (*).