Table 4.

Metabolites associated with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Metabolite	OR	P value	AUC	P value
Uric acid	2.755	<0.001	0.579	<0.001
Sphingosine	1.448	0.156	0.489	0.760
OAHOA	1.340	0.046	0.612	0.001

Conditions were defined as sphingosine <2 nmol/L and OAHOA (oleic acid-hydroxy oleic acid) <5 nmol/L.

ORs, area under curve (AUC) and the corresponding P values derived from binary or multiple logistic regression, or receiver operating characteristic curve analyses using SPSS V.17.0 software.