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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hepatology. 2012 Oct;56(4):1580–1584. doi: 10.1002/hep.26031

Table 2.

Relationship between radiologically suspected NAFLD and mortality among NHANES III participants in the study by Lazo et al.3

Suspected NAFLD with normal liver enzymes (n=2080) Suspected NAFLD with elevated liver enzymes (n=426)
Number of events Adjusted HR (95% CI) Number of events Adjusted HR (95% CI)
All-cause mortality 469 0.92 (0.78–1.02) 57 0.80 (0.52–1.22)
Cardiovascular mortality 192 0.86 (0.67–1.12) 16 0.59 (0.29–1.20)
Cancer-related mortality 116 0.92 (0.67–1.27) 14 0.53 (0.26–1.10)
Liver-related mortality 7 0.64 (0.12–3.59) 3 1.17 (0.15–8.93)

Adjusted Hazard ratio is after controlling for age, sex, education, smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, body mass index, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and diabetes.