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. 2025 May 26;25:1947. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-22260-y

Table 2.

Association of lifestyle factors with liver function parameters in 8710 participants of the Guangzhou biobank cohort study

Liver function parameters, adjusted β (95% CI)
ALT, IU/L AST, IU/L TBil, µmol/L ALB, IU/L
Smoking status
 Never 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
 Former 0.35 (-0.77, 1.76) 0.29 (-0.50, 1.09) -0.36 (-0.80, 0.08) -0.29 (-0.61, 0.03)
 Current -1.32 (-2.56, -0.07) * -0.99 (-1.77, -0.20) * -1.33 (-1.77, -0.90) *** -0.75 (-1.06, -0.43) ***
Alcohol use
 Never 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
 Former 2.41 (0.53, 4.29) * 1.75 (0.56, 1.84) ** -0.08 (-0.74, 0.57) 0.34 (-0.14, 0.82)
 Current 1.17 (0.06, 2.28) * 0.85 (0.19, 1.52) ** 0.59 (0.20, 0.98) ** 0.32 (0.03, 0.60) *
Physical activity
 Active 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
 Moderate to inactive 1.73 (0.71, 2.74) ** 1.12 (0.66, 1.57) *** 0.41 (0.06, 0.76) * 0.15 (-0.11, 0.40)
Central obesity
 No 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
 Yes 4.98 (3.92, 6.04) *** 0.85 (0.19, 1.52) * 0.13 (-0.23, 0.50) -0.15 (-0.42, 0.12)
General obesity
 No 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
 Yes 4.76 (3.56, 5.96) *** 1.43 (0.68, 2.18) *** 0.09 (-0.33, 0.51) -0.18 (-0.49, 0.12)

ALB = albumin, ALT = alanine aminotransferase, AST = aspartate aminotransferase, TBil = total bilirubin, CI = confidence interval.

: Significant factors in the Table 1 were selected for analysis in this Table.

*P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001.