Table 3.

Hepatic Steatosis with ALT versus ALT Classification and NAFLD by HSI Score for Predicting Ischemic Heart Disease

	Pairwise Comparison of AUC			Ability to Classify IHD
	Difference	95% CI	P value	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)	AUC	P value
Hepatic steatosis with ALT vs ALT classification	0.05	0.02 to 0.07	< 0.001
Hepatic steatosis with ALT vs NAFLD by HSI score	0.07	0.04 to 0.09	< 0.001
ALT classification vs NAFLD by HSI score	0.02	−0.01 to 0.04	0.201
Hepatic steatosis with ALT				51.1	65.1	0.587	< 0.001
ALT classification				21.5	86.5	0.540	< 0.001
NAFLD by HSI score				18.5	86.2	0.523	0.023

Abbreviations: ALT, alanine aminotransferase; NAFLD, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease; HSI, hepatic steatosis index; AUC, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve.