Incidentalomas are associated with an increase in liver transplantation in patients with cirrhosis: a single-center retrospective study

Table 5 Multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression analysis for predicting liver transplantation

	HR	2.5%	97.5%	p value
Age, per 1 year	1.0060	0.9983	1.0139	0.1277
Male Sex	1.0948	0.9095	1.3178	0.3384
BMI, per 1 kg/m²	0.9973	0.9833	1.0166	0.7110
White	0.9540	0.7241	1.2570	0.7380
Hispanic/Latino	1.3141	0.9436	1.8302	0.1060
History of Moderate Alcohol Use	1.0178	0.8052	1.2865	0.8827
Ever smoked	1.1609	0.9656	1.3956	0.1125
MELD, per 1 point	1.1219	1.1060	1.1380	< 0.001
NASH	0.9365	0.7464	1.1751	0.5712
History of prior TIPS	0.8839	0.6120	1.2766	0.5106
Binary Time-Dependent Variable
Incidentaloma Discovered	1.2975	1.0679	1.5763	0.0088

P values significant at p < 0.05 are bolded in the accompanying tables
BMI body mass index, MELD model for end-stage liver disease, NASH non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, TIPS transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt

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