Table 8.

Relation between severity liver disease and plasma vitamin D level

	Vitamin D level
Parameter	Deficiency (n=54)	Insufficient (n=10)	p-value for FANOVA test
Mild/medium steatosis* (%)	63.0	60.0	0.859
Severe steatosis* (%)	25.9	30.0	0.790
Lobular inflammation* (%)	74.1	40.0	0.040
Hepatocyte ballooning* (%)	75.9	80.0	0.777
Fibrosis* (%)	42.6	20.0	0.162
Simple steatosis* (%)	33.3	60.0	0.116
NASH* (%)	55.6	30.0	0.134
NASH + “vanished steatosis” * (%)	11.1	10.0	0.917

Results are shown as mean ± SD and *Kruskal-Wallis test.