Table 3.

Association of hepatic steatosis with thyroid hormone

	OR (95 % -CI)	p-value
bivariate
TSH	0.992 (0.945-1.042)	0.7453
TT3	0.738 (0.506-1.076)	0.1142
TT4	0.987 (0.979-0.995)	0.0008
multivariate
TT4 adjusted for age	0.990 (0.982-0.998)	0.0143
TT4 adjusted for BMI	0.988 (0.979-0.997)	<.0001
TT4 adjusted for WHR	0.997 (0.987-1.006)	0.5048
TT4 Adjusted for gender	0.994 (0.985-1.002)	0.1172
TT4 Adjusted for BMI, age, WHR, gender	0.994 (0.984-1.005)	0.2959

TSH = thyroid-stimulating hormone; TT3 = triiodothyronine; TT4 = thyroxine; BMI = body-mass-index; WHR = waist to hip ratio