Table 2.

Level of blood heavy metals in Non-MAFLD and MAFLD subjects.

Characteristic	Non-MAFLD (N = 4,172)	MAFLD (N = 4,370)	p-value
Co (μg/L)	0.15 [0.12, 0.19]	0.15 [0.12, 0.18]	<0.001
Cr (μg/L)	0.29 [0.29, 0.29]	0.29 [0.29, 0.29]	0.015
EtHg (μg/L)	0.05 [0.05, 0.05]	0.05 [0.05, 0.05]	0.835
MeHg (μg/L)	0.59 [0.18, 1.42]	0.51 [0.18, 1.25]	<0.001
InHg (μg/L)	0.15 [0.15, 0.23]	0.15 [0.15, 0.22]	0.008
Se (μg/L)	183.52 [169.09, 201.47]	188.11 [172.50, 204.48]	<0.001
Mn (μg/L)	8.92 [7.00, 11.21]	9.18 [7.500, 11.38]	<0.001
Cd (μg/L)	0.38 [0.23, 0.66]	0.30 [0.190, 0.50]	<0.001
Hg (μg/L)	0.79 [0.30, 1.70]	0.69 [0.360, 1.50]	<0.001
Pb (μg/L)	1.17 [0.77, 1.77]	0.99 [0.67, 1.51]	<0.001

All values are displayed as Median (Quartile1-Quartile 3).