Research Article
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Is Associated with Helicobacter pylori Infection in North Urban Chinese: A Retrospective Study
Table 1
Characteristics of the subjects in the study.
| | Variables | Total
| H. pylori (+)
| H. pylori (-)
| value |
| | Age (year), | | | | <0.001 | | <45 | 10525 (58.6) | 4334 (55.5) | 6191 (60.9) | <0.001 | | ≥45 | 7446 (41.4) | 3469 (44.5) | 3977 (39.1) | | Sex, female (%) | 5898 (32.8) | 2374 (30.4) | 3524 (34.7) | <0.001 | | Underlying diseases | 5079 (28.3) | 2260 (29.0) | 2819 (27.7) | 0.068 | | Hypertension | 4202 (23.4) | 1884 (24.1) | 2318 (22.8) | 0.034 | | Coronary heart disease | 864 (4.8) | 386 (4.9) | 478 (4.7) | 0.445 | | Diabetes | 1950 (4.8) | 852 (10.9) | 1098 (10.8) | 0.797 | | Hyperlipidemia | 6412 (35.7) | 2628 (33.7) | 3784 (37.2) | <0.001 | | NAFLD | 4825 (26.8) | 2516 (32.2) | 2309 (22.7) | <0.001 | | Mild | 3726 (20.7) | 1901 (24.4) | 1825 (17.9) | <0.001 | | Moderate | 730 (4.1) | 407 (5.2) | 323 (3.2) | | Severe | 369 (2.1) | 208 (2.7) | 161 (1.6) | | mmol/L | 4801 (26.8) | 2182 (28.1) | 2619 (25.9) | 0.001 | | mmol/L | 5254 (28.4) | 2348 (30.1) | 2906 (28.6) | 0.027 | | mmol/L | 8650 (48.1) | 4074 (52.2) | 4576 (45.0) | <0.001 | | 5.7 mmol/L | 2255 (12.6) | 891 (11.4) | 1364 (13.4) | <0.001 | | BMI (kg/m2), | | | | <0.001 | | Underweight | 568 (3.2) | 238 (3.5) | 330 (3.7) | <0.001 | | Normal | 7503 (41.8) | 3107 (46.2) | 4396 (49.8) | | Overweight | 5560 (30.9) | 2486 (37.0) | 3074 (34.8) | | Obesity | 1910 (10.6) | 888 (13.2) | 1022 (11.6) | | Number of MS characteristic | | 0 | 2465 (13.7) | 991 (12.7) | 1474 (14.5) | <0.001 | | 1-2 | 10402 (57.9) | 4428 (56.7) | 5974 (58.8) | | ≥3 | 5104 (28.4) | 2384 (30.6) | 2720 (26.8) |
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SD: standard deviation. aNumber of subjects. |
