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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2010 Aug 20;8(12):1062–1069. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2010.08.005

Table 2.

Adjusted Cumulative Odds Ratios of Adipose Depot Sizes and Their Association With the Severity of Fibrosis in Men, Premenopausal, and Postmenopausal Women

Men Premenopausal women Postmenopausal women



COR (95% CI) P value COR (95% CI) P value COR (95% CI) P value
Age, 10-y increase 1.4 (1.0–1.8) .021 1.7 (1.1–2.6) .014
Race, white 2.3 (1.1–4.7) .021
Extremity size (EXT), 1 U increase 0.7 (0.6–0.9) .008 1.6 (1.2–2.2) .003 1.0 (0.8–1.3) .711
Abdominal size (WAIST), 1 U increase 0.8 (0.5–1.2) .310 1.3 (0.7–2.5) .357 1.6 (1.0–2.5) .032
Current smoking
Current alcohol use 0.5 (0.3–0.8) .008
Total calorie intake, 500 Kcal/d increase 0.9 (0.8–1.1) .315 1.0 (0.8–1.3) .955 0.9 (0.8–1.1) .424
Nonrecreational physical activities, 10 MET-h/wk increase 1.0 (1.0–1.1) .970 1.0 (0.9–1.0) .820 1.0 (0.9–1.0) .562
Recreational physical activities, 10 MET-h/wk increase 1.0 (1.0–1.0) .375 0.9 (0.8–1.0) .074 1.0 (0.9–1.0) .861
Sleep apnea 1.5 (0.7–3.5) .331 2.6 (0.6–10.6) .181 1.4 (0.6–3.4) .440
Diabetes mellitus 1.5 (0.8–2.8) .169
Hypertension 2.1 (0.9–4.8) .078
Hypertriglyceridemia 0.3 (0.1–0.7) .009
Low-HDL cholesterol 1.5 (0.5–4.2) .442
High-LDL cholesterol 0.7 (0.4–1.2) .179
Hyperuricemia 0.2 (0.1–0.5) <.001 1.8 (0.8–4.4) .183
Homa-IR, 5 U increase 1.2 (0.7–2.2) .555 1.4 (1.0–1.8) .040

CI, confidence interval; COR, adjusted cumulative odds ratio; EXT, calculated parameter indicating extremity size; MET, metabolic equivalent of task; WAIST, standardized waist circumference (z-score).