Table 2.

Stratified analysis for the adjusted hazard ratio (95% C.I.) stratified by age subgroups (Study 1).

Variables	NAFLD vs Comparison (ref.)
	aHR1	95% CI	p-value
Age (year)
≤40	1.30	1.14 - 1.48	<0.001
41-64	1.03	0.95 - 1.12	0.484
≥65	0.93	0.80 - 1.07	0.307

¹aHR, adjusted hazard ratio. Extraneous factors adjusted in the model contained all variables in Table 3 .

The bolding value refers to statistically significant values.