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. 2023 Nov 21;23:2303. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-17177-3

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics on the sociodemographic and lifestyle characteristics of participants separately by sex

Sociodemographic (N, %) Total (N = 196,515) MAFLD (N = 77,172) Non-MAFLD (N = 119,343) χ2 P
Age 6369.318 < 0.001
 < 45 107,008(54.45) 33,418(43.30) 73,590(61.66)
 ≥ 45 89,507(45.55) 43,754(56.70) 45,753(38.34)
Sex < 0.001
 Male 107,931(54.92) 58,678(76.04) 49,253(41.27) 22,879.215
 Female 88,584(45.08) 18,494(23.96) 70,090(58.73)
Education level < 0.001
 Junior high school and below 20,169(10.26) 8404(10.89) 11,765(9.86)
 Senior high school 27,098(13.79) 11,628(15.07) 15,470(12.96) 279.473
 College and above 99,259(50.51) 37,608(48.73) 61,651(51.66)
 Missing data 49,989(25.44) 19,532(25.31) 30,457(25.52)
Marital status < 0.001
 Married 168,076(85.53) 70,400(91.22) 97,676(81.84)
 Unmarried 21,668(11.03) 4492(5.82) 17,176(14.39) 3814.046
 Divorced/widowed 4740(2.41) 1798(2.33) 2942(2.47)
 Missing data 2031(1.03) 482(0.62) 1549(1.30)
Occupation category < 0.001
 Mental labour 72,295(36.79) 28,510(36.94) 43,785(36.69)
 Physical labour 42,946(21.85) 17,034(22.07) 25,912(21.71) 41.626
 Other 31,597(16.08) 11,902(15.42) 19,695(16.50)
 Missing data 49,677(25.28) 19,726(25.56) 29,951(25.10)
Type of medical insurance < 0.001
 Urban resident medical insurance 13,473(6.86) 5240(6.79) 8233(6.90)
 Urban worker medical insurance 105,335(53.60) 42,081(54.53) 63,254(53.00) 156.622
 Agricultural cooperative 19,689(10.02) 7552(9.79) 12,137(10.17)
 No medical insurance 3167(1.61) 935(1.21) 2232(1.87)
 Missing data 54,851(27.91) 21,364(27.68) 33,487(28.06)