Table 1.
Distribution of socio-demographic and economic factors among study participants, overall and according to the absence or presence of steatotic liver disease.
| Characteristics | All subjects (n = 2,826) | By any SLD, n (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (Column %) | Non SLD | Any SLD | ||
| Overall | – | – | 2,049 (72.5) | 777 (27.1%, 95% CI 24.0%−30.0%) |
| Sex | male | 1,104 (39.1) | 856 (77.5) | 248 (22.5) |
| female | 1,722 (60.9) | 1,193 (69.3) | 529 (30.7) | |
| Age | 35-49yr | 1,520 (53.8) | 1,112 (73.2) | 408 (26.8) |
| 50-59yr | 757 (26.8) | 519 (68.6) | 238 (31.4) | |
| ≥60yr | 549 (19.4) | 418 (76.1) | 131 (23.9) | |
| Education | illiterate | 482 (17.1) | 347 (72.0) | 135 (28.0) |
| primary school | 1,329 (47.0) | 945 (71.1) | 384 (28.9) | |
| above secondary school | 1,015 (35.9) | 757 (74.6) | 258 (25.4) | |
| Profession | housewife/elderly | 246 (8.7) | 179 (72.8) | 67 (27.2) |
| farmer/labour | 2,223 (78.7) | 1,638 (73.7) | 585 (26.3) | |
| civil servants or traders | 357 (12.6) | 232 (65.0) | 125 (35.0) | |
| Socio-economic status | poor tertile | 1,049 (37.1) | 789 (75.2) | 260 (24.8) |
| middle tertile | 911 (32.2) | 673 (73.9) | 238 (26.1) | |
| wealthy tertile | 866 (30.6) | 587 (67.8) | 279 (32.2) | |
| Province | CPS | 1,395 (49.4) | 947 (67.9) | 448 (32.1) |
| SVK | 1,431 (50.6) | 1,102 (77.0) | 329 (23.0) | |
SLD - steatotic liver disease; yr - year; SES - socio-economic status; CPS - Champasak; SVK - Savannakhet, 95% CI - 95% confidence interval.
Data is presented in terms of frequency and row percentage, except for the overall column (column percent).