Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Canadian First Nations and Non-First Nations Patients

Table 1

Demographic and clinical features of First Nations and Non-First Nations patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

	First Nations		Non-First Nations
Variable
		%		%
Demographics
Age at presentation (yrs)	46.6 ± 12.4		46.9 ± 13.1		0.90
Female	22	66.7	233	51.9	0.10
F/M ratio	2		1.1
Urban	8	24.2	228	50.8	0.003
Comorbidities
Obesity	19	57.6	213	47.4	0.26
Overweight	6	18.2	53	11.8	0.28
Type 2 DM	14	42.4	69	15.4	0.0001
Hyperlipidemia	8	24.2	124	27.6	0.67
Hypertension	3	9.1	58	12.9	0.52
Physical findings
Weight (kg)	97 ± 29		93 ± 19		0.47
BMI	31 ± 5.4		29 ± 6.6		0.10
Hepatomegaly	10	30.3	52	11.6	0.002
Splenomegaly	1	3.0	25	5.6	0.53
Ascites	0	0	8	1.8	0.44
Varices	0	0	7	1.6	0.47
Encephalopathy	0	0	5	1.1	0.54
Cirrhosis	1	3.0	19	4.2	0.97
Decompensated cirrhosis	0	0	14	3.1	0.30

Results represent mean ± SD.
yrs: years; F/M: female/male; type 2 DM: type 2 diabetes mellitus.