Sex, Age, and BMI Modulate the Association of Physical Examinations and Blood Biochemistry Parameters and NAFLD: A Retrospective Study on 1994 Cases Observed at Shuguang Hospital, China

Table 1

Differences of demographic and physical examinations and blood biochemistry parameters between control (n=1008) and NAFLD (n=986) groups.

Parameters	Control group	NAFLD group	Effect Size (Cohen’s d)
Sex, male (%)	48%	52%	N/A
Age (years)	45.61 ± 13.23	48.27 ± 11.47	0.21
BMI (kg/m^2)	22.54 ± 2.58	26.31 ± 3.29	1.28
SBP (mmHg)	124.26 ± 18.35	133.11 ± 17.51	0.49
DBP (mmHg)	76.59 ± 10.65	83.35 ± 10.32	0.64
TC (mmol/L)	4.94 ± 0.9	5.16 ± 0.96	0.24
TG (mmol/L)	1.23 ± 0.75	2.12 ± 1.48	0.76
LDL-C (mmol/L)	2.82 ± 0.77	3.03 ± 0.78	0.27
HDL-C (mmol/L)	1.43 ± 0.34	1.23 ± 0.37	0.56
FPG (mmol/L)	5.11 ± 0.97	5.52 ± 1.24	0.37
HbA1c (%)	5.36 ± 0.72	5.62 ± 0.81	0.34
SUA (μmol/L)	331.88 ± 86.09	382.42 ± 90.25	0.57
SCr (μmol/L)	70.47 ± 15.85	72.69 ± 14.91	0.14
eGFR (mL/min)	103.17 ± 17.75	102.24 ± 17.42	0.05
ALT (U/L)	19.56 ± 12.7	31.09 ± 24.36	0.59
AST (U/L)	21.61 ± 9.31	25.24 ± 12.43	0.33
γ-GT (U/L)	25.24 ± 21.81	40.49 ± 34.64	0.53