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Table 2 Number of patients with NAFLD and cholangiocarcinoma in the included case-control studies

From: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease as a risk factor for cholangiocarcinoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Author, year

Number of CCA cases (n)

Number of controls (n)

iCCA

eCCA

All

Total

With NAFLD

Total

With NAFLD

Total

With NAFLD

Total

With NAFLD

Welzel et al. 2007 [10]

535

5 (0.9%)

549

4 (7.3%)

1084

9 (0.8%)

102,782

353 (0.34%)

Zhou et al. 2009 [20]

317

6 (1.9%)

317

6 (1.9%)

634

8 (1.2%)

Chang et al. 2013 [17]

2978

156 (5.2%)

2179

89 (4.1%)

5157

245 (4.8%)

20628a

410 (2.0%)

Lee et al. 2015 [18]

81

17 (21.0%)

81

17 (21.0%)

162

28 (17.3%)

Kinoshita et al. 2016 [9]

34

15 (44.1%)

34

15 (44.1%)

69

13 (18.8%)

Choi et al. 2016 [16]

1169

61 (5.2%)

1226b

52 (4.2%)

2395

113 (4.7%)

4769

181 (3.8%)

Stepien et al. 2016 [19]

34

21 (61.8%)

34

21 (61.8%)

67

25 (37.3%)

  1. eCCA Extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, iCCA Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, NAFLD Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
  2. aComprised 11,912 controls for iCCA cases, of whom 236 had NAFLD; and 8716 controls for eCCA cases, of whom 174 had NAFLD
  3. bIncluded 231 patients with distal CCA, of whom 15 had NAFLD; and 995 patients with perihilar CCA, of whom 37 had NAFLD