Table 5.
Associations of grade of erosive esophagitis, according to LA classification, with individual components of the metabolic syndrome n (%)
| Control (n = 3358) | A (n = 1326) | B (n = 328) | C or D (n = 25) | P for linear trend1 | |
| Increased waist circumference | 942 (28) | 504 (38) | 159 (48) | 19 (76) | < 0.001 |
| Hypertension | 722 (22) | 378 (29) | 103 (31) | 8 (32) | 0.244 |
| DM or elevated FBS | 84 (2.5) | 49 (4) | 11 (3) | 0 | 0.346 |
| Increased TG | 850 (25) | 561 (42) | 138 (42) | 11 (44) | 0.004 |
| Low HDL-C | 497 (15) | 164 (12) | 37 (11) | 5 (20) | 0.582 |
1
Adjusted for gender, current smoking, hiatal hernia, reflux symptoms, alcohol use, fatty liver on abdominal USG, and HOMA.