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Table 5 Characteristics of the alcohol-free 5,289 subjects (3,473 females and 1,816 males) focusing on the presence of fatty liver (NAFLD) and its association with three 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

NAFLD(N = 881)

non-NAFLD(N = 2592)

pvalue

NAFLD(N = 921)

non-NAFLD(N = 895)

pvalue

MS

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<0.0001*

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<0.0001*

Non-MS

838 (24.5 %)

2590 (75.6 %)

 

793 (47.2 %)

886 (52.8 %)

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MS

43 (95.6 %)

2 (4.4 %)

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128 (93.4 %)

9 (6.6 %)

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Smoking

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0.3913

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0.0033*

Current-smoker

54 (29.4 %)

130 (70.7 %)

 

289 (54.4 %)

242 (45.6 %)

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Former-smoker

71 (24.0 %)

225 (76.0 %)

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284 (53.7 %)

245 (46.3 %)

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Never-smoker

756 (25.3 %)

2237 (74.7 %)

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348 (46.0 %)

408 (54.0 %)

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H. pylori Ab

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0.0145

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0.8742

Negative

610 (24.2 %)

1907 (75.8 %)

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669 (50.6 %)

654 (49.4 %)

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Positive

271 (28.4 %)

685 (71.7 %)

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252 (51.1 %)

241 (48.9 %)

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  1. NAFLD: non-alcoholic 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 (*).