Can Nonfibrotic Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Be Effectively Identified by Supersonic Shear Imaging?

Table 5

Correlation of liver elasticity values with biochemical findings in rabbit models.

	Univariate analysis		Multivariate analysis
		value		95% CI	value
ALT	0.909	≤0.001	0.169	0.125-0.213	≤0.001
AST	0.799	≤0.001	0.008	-0.052-0.068	0.796
TC	0.568	≤0.001	-0.009	-0.121-0.103	0.874
TG	0.015	0.929	—	—	—
HDL-C	0.354	0.032	-0.045	-0.632-0.542	0.877
LDL-C	0.577	≤0.001	0.088	-0.012-0.188	0.083

ALT: alanine aminotransferase; AST: aspartate aminotransferase; TC: total cholesterol; TG: triglyceride; HDL-C: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-C: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; : Pearson correlation coefficient; : regression coefficient. Significant value is <0.05.