Table 2.

Unadjusted Spearman correlation coefficients between risk factors and liver-spleen ratio, and p-value for ethnic interaction, IRAS Family Study, excluding persons with diabetes

	Hispanic		African American
	r	P-value	r	P-value	p-value for interaction
Age at follow-up (yrs)	0.09	0.03	−0.09	0.13	0.07
Liver Density (HU)	0.84	<0.0001	0.76	<.0001	0.29
BMI (kg/m2)	−0.44	<0.0001	−0.13	0.03	<.0001
VAT (cm3)	−0.43	<0.0001	−0.24	<.0001	0.002
SAT (cm3)	−0.27	<0.0001	−0.07	0.27	<.0001
Percent Total Body Fat	−0.07	0.09	0.06	0.30	0.02
Fasting insulin (mg/dl)	−0.43	<0.0001	−0.23	0.0001	<.0001
Fasting glucose (mg/dl)	−0.27	<0.0001	−0.05	0.39	0.0001
HDL (mg/dl)	0.38	<0.0001	0.14	0.02	0.02
TG (mg/dl)	−0.30	<0.0001	−0.19	0.001	<.0001
PAI-1 (ng/ml)	−0.40	<0.0001	−0.09	0.13	<.0001
ALT (IU/L)	−0.46	<0.0001	−0.24	0.0001	0.0001
AST (IU/L)	−0.32	<0.0001	−0.17	0.003	0.02
GGT (IU/L)	−0.30	<0.0001	−0.22	0.0002	0.36
Insulin Sensitivity Index *	0.43	<0.0001	0.25	<.0001	0.0007
Acute Insulin Response *	−0.22	<0.0001	−0.08	0.22	0.01
Disposition Index *	0.22	<0.0001	0.15	0.01	0.002
Adiponectin (mg/ml) *	0.31	<0.0001	0.29	<.0001	0.91
CRP (mg/ml) *	−0.27	<0.0001	−0.08	0.17	0.01

^*Data obtained five years prior to NAFLD assessment.