Prediction of Liver Steatosis and Fibrosis Based on Clinical Variables Using a Large National Survey Database

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of our study population.

Patient characteristics	Median and interquartile range for continuous variables. Proportions and 95 confidence intervals for the categorical variables
Controlled attenuation parameter (mean, interquartile range^1)	254 dB/m
Liver fibrosis (median, interquartile range^2)	4.8 kPa
Age (median, interquartile range^3)	38 years
Male (proportion, 95% CI^4)	0.489
Body mass index (median, interquartile range^5)	26.9
Metabolic energy expenditure per week (median, interquartile range^6)	1680 kcal/week
Triglyceride levels (median, interquartile range^7)	86 mg/dL
LDL levels (median, interquartile range^8)	105 mg/dL
Hba1c (median, interquartile range^9)	5.4%
Amount of alcohol drink in the last month^10	Once a month
Systolic blood pressure (median, interquartile range^11)	118 mmHg
Diastolic blood pressure (median, interquartile range^12)	71 mmHg
Hours of fasting prior to the procedure (median, interquartile range^13)	7 hours
Smoking^14	Mean of 1.8 cigarettes in the last month (average cigarettes smoked for the last month)

¹(212–302 dB/m), ²(4–5.9 kPa), ³(19–57 years), ⁴(0.95 CI = 47.2–51), ⁵(22.1–32.2), ⁶(240–5760 kcal), ⁷(57–132 mg/dL), ⁸(85–125 mg/dL), ⁹(5.2–5.8%), ¹⁰(two times a week-one to two times in the past year), ¹¹(107–130 mmHg), ¹²(63–78 mmHg), ¹³(4–12 hours), ¹⁴(0.95 CI 1.48–2.16).