Table 2.

Proportion (%) of patients with improved or unchanged ultrasonographic findings after 24 weeks of PPC treatment, according to comorbidity nature

Features—%	Hypertension (n=1635)		Overweight/obesity (n=2285)		Type 2 diabetes mellitus (n=475)		High cholesterol (n=2119)
	Improved	No change	Improved	No change	Improved	No change	Improved	No change
Diffuse liver hyperechogenicity	67.7	32.3	68.8	31.2	68.2	31.8	67.8	32.2
Heterogeneous structure of the liver*	43.6	56.4	43.3	56.6	40.6	59.3	43.7	56.2
Indistinctness and/or underlined vascular pattern	24.8	75.2	23.1	76.9	24.8	75.2	24.4	75.6
Distal echo signal attenuation	21.7	78.3	22.5	77.5	22.7	77.3	21.5	78.5

*Worsening of ‘heterogeneous structure of the liver’ occurred in 0.1% of patients in each comorbidity subgroup.

PPC, polyenylphosphatidylcholine.