Table 1.

Characteristics of subjects in this study.

	Health controls	NAFLD patients
Cases	48	60
Male/Female	36/12	46/14
Age (years)	45.42 ± 2.3	46.02 ± 3.1
Body Mass Index (kg/m2)	21.77 ± 0.44	27.71 ± 0.37***
γ-glutamyl transferase (IU/L)	16.57 ± 1.47	92.27 ± 9.06***
Alanine aminotransferase (IU/L)	14.70 ± 1.07	50.78 ± 4.15***
Triglyceride (mmol/L)	1.01 ± 0.56	3.67 ± 0.41***
Total cholesterol (mmol/L)	3.90 ± 0.20	5.30 ± 0.16***
HbA1c (%)	5.34 ± 0.06	6.22 ± 0.19**
Fasting glucose (mmol/L)	5.01 ± 0.07	6.14 ± 0.27**

^***P < 0.001,

^**P < 0.01.