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

Table 2

Laboratory findings in First Nations and Non-First Nations patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

Variable; (normal range)	First Nations; Baseline/follow-up	Non-First Nations; Baseline/follow-up	value; Baseline/follow-up
Duration of follow-up (yrs)	2.9 ± 3.3	2.7 ± 3.1	0.731
ALT (<30 U/L)	81 ± 52/59 ± 41	83 ± 109/53 ± 43	0.92/0.49
AST (10–32 U/L)	50 ± 31/43 ± 24	58 ± 101/37 ± 22	0.66/0.13
ALP (30–120 U/L)	151 ± 77/136 ± 72	114 ± 61/102 ± 59	0.0002/0.004
GGT (5–38 U/L)	119 ± 104/118 ± 119	124 ± 177/110 ± 191	0.88/0.82
Albumin (33–45 G/L)	38 ± 3.9/38 ± 4.1	40 ± 6.1/40 ± 5.1	0.01/0.02
Total bilirubin (3–21 μmol/L)	9.2 ± 6.4/8.5 ± 5.0	13 ± 32/12.3 ± 18	0.07/0.02
INR (0.9–1.1)	1.0 ± 0.1/1.0 ± 0.1	1.4 ± 1.5/1.1 ± 0.6	0.72/0.57
Platelets (140–/L)	279 ± 80/243 ± 83	244 ± 71/239 ± 71	0.015/0.78
Creatinine (35–106 μmol/L)	69 ± 21/70 ± 22	77 ± 26/81 ± 46	0.164/0.07
Total cholesterol (<5.2 mmol/L)	5.4 ± 0.9	6.9 ± 17	0.682
Triglycerides (<1.7 mmol/L)	3.0 ± 2.2	5.2 ± 20	0.612
Glucose (3.6–6.0 mmol/L)	8.2 ± 4.3	7.0 ± 7.5	0.006

Results represent mean ± SD.
ALT: alanine aminotransferase; AST: aspartate aminotransferase; ALP: alkaline phosphatase; GGT: gamma glutamyltransferase; INR: international normalization ratio.