Presence of Fatty Liver and the Relationship between Alcohol Consumption and Markers of Inflammation

Table 2

Arithmetic mean with standard deviation of serum concentrations of ALT, GGT, and HDL, according to alcohol consumption ( for difference between categories).

Alcohol intake in [g/day]	Fatty liver	0	>0–20	>20–40	>40–60	>60
HDL mmol/L (SD)	Total	1.57 (0.4)	1.70 (0.4)	1.55 (0.4)	1.61 (0.5)	1.53 (0.6)	0.0964
	Yes	1.36 (0.34)	1.43 (0.59)	1.42 (0.38)	1.43 (0.37)	1.53 (0.35)
	No	1.67 (0.41)	1.76 (0.45)	1.61 (0.37)	1.72 (0.56)	1.52 (0.43)
GGT U/L (SD)	Total	12.2 (7.55–16.8)	12.4 (7.79–17.1)	16.0 (11.3–20.6)	25.2 (20.1–30.3)	35.7 (29.0–42.3)	<0.0001
	Yes	18 (19.3)	19 (15.6)	16 (8.6)	28 (15.6)	57 (63.3)
	No	9 (6.9)	11 (8.3)	16 (23.0)	23 (22.1)	18 (13.5)
AST U/L (SD)	Total	9.53 (8.87–10.2)	9.10 (8.44–9.76)	10.1 (9.47–10.8)	11.0 (10.3–11.7)	11.2 (10.3–12.2)	0.0002
	Yes	11 (2.89)	10 (3.1)	11 (2.9)	13 (6.66)	12 (3.15)
	No	9 (3.77)	9 (2.3)	10 (2.44)	10 (2.6)	11 (2.94)
ALT U/L (SD)	Total	15.4 (13.9–16.9)	14.2 (12.7–15.7)	16.1 (14.6–17.6)	18.8 (17.2–20.5)	18.6 (16.5–20.7)	0.0001
	Yes	19 (7.4)	18 (6.7)	19 (7.3)	23 (9.7)	21 (8.1)
	No	14 (8.5)	13 (6.0)	14 (6.0)	16 (6.4)	17 (5.6)