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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Dec 4.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2024 May 9;22(9):1858–1866.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2024.04.006

Table 2.

Associations between demographic, etiological, and lifestyle factors and risk of incident HCC among patients with cirrhosis.

Crude HR
(95% CI)
P-value Adjusted HR**
(95% CI)
P-value
Age, years
<55 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref)
55–<65 1.86 (1.07–3.21) 0.0266 1.87 (1.03–3.41) 0.0397
≥65 2.08 (1.19–3.62) 0.0097 2.26 (1.25–4.08) 0.0072
Sex
Female 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref)
Male 1.57 (1.04–2.37) 0.0334 1.58 (1.03–2.44) 0.0364
Race/ethnicity
NH-White 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref)
NH-Black 0.57 (0.33–1.00) 0.0512 0.47 (0.26–0.85) 0.0118
Hispanic 0.81 (0.53–1.24) 0.3355 0.85 (0.55–1.32) 0.4746
Others 0.56 (0.14–2.29) 0.4230 0.68 (0.17–2.74) 0.5831
HCV status*
No 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref)
Yes 1.49 (1.04–2.15) 0.0314 1.66 (1.13–2.44) 0.0102
PNPLA3 G risk allele carrier status
Noncarrier 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref)
Carrier 1.51 (1.02–2.22) 0.0379 1.62 (1.08–2.45) 0.0210
Current heavy alcohol consumption
No 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref)
Yes 1.41 (0.73–2.72) 0.3058 1.43 (0.75–2.75) 0.2774
Obesity
No 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref)
Yes 1.32 (0.91–1.90) 0.1444 1.37 (0.94–2.00) 0.0976
*

Active or cured HCV infection.

**

Full model included all terms in the table.