Table 1.
Characteristics of Studies in Meta-analysis
| Study author | Region/Country | Participants and subgroup (number of cases) | Study design | Diagnostic method of fatty liver | Adjustments | NOS score | ||
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| Adenoma/nonadenoma group | NAFLD/non-NAFLD group of colorectal adenoma population | Basic data | Characteristics of colorectal adenoma | |||||
| Huang et al, 2013 | Taipei/China | 1522 (216/1306) | 216 (120/96) | Cohort | Ultrasonography | Gender, age, BMI, waist, FPG, ALT, AST, cholesterol, HDL, LDL, triglycerides, HBP, DM, smoking, NAFLD | Location, size, number, histological type | 8 |
| Hwang et al, 2010 | Seoul/Korea | 2917 (556/2361) | 556 (231/325) | Cross-sectional | Ultrasonography | Gender, age, BMI, waist, HBP, FPG, ALT, AST, cholesterol, HDL, LDL, triglycerides, DM, smoking, NAFLD | Location, size, number, histological type | 8 |
| Kang et al, 2010 | Seoul/Korea | 2244 (1122/1122) | NA | Cross-sectional | NA | Age, gender, smoking, DM, HBP, BMI, waist, cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL, FPG | NA | 7 |
| Kim et al, 2010 | Seoul/Korea | 1316 (263/1053) | NA | Cross-sectional | NA | Gender, age, smoking, DM, BMI, HBP, FPG, cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL, LDL | NA | 8 |
| Lin et al, 2014 | Wenzhou/China | 2315 (1946/369) | 1946 (216/1730) | Cohort | Ultrasonography | FPG, BMI, HDL, HBP, TC | Histological type | 7 |
| Stadlmayr et al, 2011 | Oberndorf/Austria | 1211 (341/870) | 331 (215/126) | Cross-sectional | Ultrasonography | Age, BMI, waist, cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL, FPG, AST, ALT | Location, size, histological type | 8 |
| Wong et al, 2011 | Hongkong/China | NA | 380 (199/181) | Cohort | Histology | Age, gender, smoking, BMI, waist, FPG, cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL, LDL, AST, ALT, DM, HBP | Location, histological type | 7 |