Research Article
The Reliability of Classification of Terminal Nodes in GUIDE Decision Tree to Predict the Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Table 5
Table of demographic and clinical characteristics of participants according to groups (number (%) or mean ± SD).
| Risk factors | Abbreviation | Level | Without NAFLD () | With NAFLD () |
| Sex | SEX | Male | 361 (% 29.1) | 110 (% 30.7) | Female | 880 (% 70.9) | 249 (% 69.3) | Marital status | MS | Single | 447 (36%) | 27 (7.5%) | Married | 726 (58.5%) | 297 (83%) | Other | 68 (5.5%) | 35 (9.5%) | History of hepatitis B vaccine | HEP | Yes | 538 (43.4%) | 70 (19.3%) | No | 703 (56.6%) | 289 (80.7%) | History of blood transfusion | BT | Yes | 22 (1.8%) | 11 (3.1%) | No | 1219 (98.2%) | 348 (96.9%) | Thalassemia | THAL | Yes | 2 (.2%) | 1 (.3%) | No | 1239 (99.8%) | 358 (99.7%) | Hemophilia | HEMO | Yes | 3 (.2%) | 0 (.0%) | No | 1238 (99.8%) | 359 (100%) | Dialysis | DI | Yes | 3 (.2%) | 1 (.3%) | No | 1238 (99.8%) | 358 (99.7%) | Surgery | SU | Yes | 3 (.2%) | 1 (.3%) | No | 1238 (99.8%) | 358 (99.7%) | History of surgery | HS | Yes | 356 (28.7%) | 141 (39.4%) | No | 885 (71.3%) | 218 (60.4%) | History of dental surgery | DE | Yes | 1002 (80.7%) | 303 (84.6%) | No | 239 (19.3%) | 56 (15.4%) | History of phlebotomy | PH | Yes | 94 (7.6%) | 35 (9.8%) | No | 1147 (92.4%) | 324 (90.2%) | Tattoos | TA | Yes | 38 (3.1%) | 19 (5.3%) | No | 1203 (96.9%) | 340 (94.7%) | History of unsanitary piercing ears | UPE | Yes | 541 (43.6%) | 141 (39.4%) | No | 700 (56.4%) | 218 (60.6%) | Hookah | HOO | Yes | 83 (6.7%) | 28 (7.8%) | No | 1158 (93.3%) | 331 (92.2%) | Current smoking | SMOK | Yes | 39 (3.1%) | 19 (5.3%) | No | 1202 (96.9%) | 340 (94.7%) | History of drug using | HDU | Yes | 28 (2.3%) | 6 (1.7%) | No | 1213 (97.7%) | 353 (98.3%) | HBS Ag | HBSAG | Negative | 1215 (98.1%) | 353 (98.5%) | Positive | 26 (1.9%) | 6 (1.5%) | HBS Ab | HBSAB | Negative | 1079 (88.5%) | 307 (87.0%) | Positive | 162 (11.5%) | 52 (13.0%) | Body mass index | BMI | Underweight (UW) | 197 (15.9%) | 1 (.3%) | Normal (N) | 633 (51%) | 62 (17.3%) | Overweight (OW) | 320 (25.8%) | 186 (51.7%) | Obese (OB) | 87 (7%) | 110 (30.7%) | Waist-hip ratio | WHR | | 0.83 ± 0.09 | 0.92 ± 0.09 | Systolic blood pressure | SBP | | 100.05 ± 26.1 | 108.42 ± 31.86 | Diastolic blood pressure | DBP | | 82.14 ± 20.01 | 93.37 ± 23.85 | High density lipoprotein | HDL | | 50.95 ± 11.5 | 48.9 ± 9.73 | Triglycerides | TG | | 120.3 ± 68.52 | 193.89 ± 113.5 | Alanine aminotransferase | ALT | | 15.56 ± 10.92 | 19.11 ± 12.5 | Cholesterol | CHO | | 184.94 ± 42.58 | 207.62 ± 41.79 | Aspartate aminotransferase | AST | | 24.84 ± 11.66 | 28.06 ± 17.84 | Glucose | GLU | | 96.68 ± 26.86 | 108.45 ± 39.56 | Albumin | AL | | 4.32 ± 0.37 | 4.23 ± 0.4 | Age | AGE | | 34.85 ± 17.45 | 45.9 ± 13.34 |
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