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Published in final edited form as: Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2023 Nov 15;59(1):80–88. doi: 10.1111/apt.17783

TABLE 4.

Sensitivity analysis on the factors associated with the composite outcome (decompensation, HCC and death) stratified by the presence of cirrhosis.

Variables	Univariable analysis		Multivariable analysis^a
Variables	Hazard ratio (95% CI)	p-value	Hazard ratio (95% CI)	p-value
MRE <5 kPa	Referent	Referent	Referent	Referent
MRE ≥5 kPa and MRI-PDFF ≥5%	6.9 (3.0–15.6)	<0.0001	8.1 (3.0–21.8)	<0.0001
MRE ≥5 kPa and MRI-PDFF <5%	12.9 (4.8–34.7)	<0.0001	10.1 (3.1–33.1)	0.0001

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; kPa, kilopascal; MRE, magnetic resonance elastography; MRI-PDFF, magnetic resonance imaging-derived proton density fat fraction.

Adjusted for age, sex, BMI and race/ethnicity.