Higher serum uric acid to HDL-cholesterol ratio is associated with onset of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in a non-obese Chinese population with normal blood lipid levels

Table 5 AUC for significant predictors under subgroup analysis for gender and liver functioning

	UHR	LDL	RC	LDL-C/HDL-C	ALB/ALP	NHDL-C/HDL-C	ALT/AST
Female
AUC (95%CI)	0.69 (0.66–0.72)	0.64 (0.61–0.67)	0.60 (0.57–0.63)	0.70 (0.67–0.73)	0.61 (0.58–0.61)	0.70 (0.67–0.73)	0.72 (0.69–0.75)
P value	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001
Male
AUC (95%CI)	0.65 (0.62–0.68)	0.63 (0.60–0.66)	0.58 (0.54–0.61)	0.67 (0.64–0.70)	0.61 (0.58–0.64)	0.67 (0.64–0.70)	0.68 (0.65–0.71)
P value	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001
ALT < 40 U/L
AUC (95%CI)	0.70 (0.65–0.69)	0.63 (0.61–0.65)	0.59 (0.57–0.61)	0.68 (0.66–0.70)	0.61 (0.58–0.63)	0.68 (0.66–0.70)	0.69 (0.67–0.71)
P value	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001
ALT > 40 U/L
AUC (95%CI)	0.61 (0.54–0.69)	0.61 (0.54–0.69)	0.53 (0.45–0.61)	0.63 (0.55–0.70)	0.53 (0.46–0.61)	0.61 (0.54–0.68)	0.56 (0.48–0.64)
P value	0.007	0.006	0.441	0.002	0.419	0.007	0.159

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