Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Is Associated with Helicobacter pylori Infection in North Urban Chinese: A Retrospective Study

Table 3

The association between NAFLD and H. pylori infection in different subgroups.

Variable	Number of patients with fatty liver (%)	H. pylori
		Crude OR (95% CI)		Adjusted OR (95% CI)
Age
<45	2272 (21.6)	1.624 (1.479-1.783)	<0.001	1.679 (1.516-1.860)	<0.001
≥45	2553 (34.3)	1.534 (1.393-1.689)	<0.001	1.604 (1.449-1.776)	<0.001
Gender
Female	1350 (22.9)	1.435 (1.269-1.621)	<0.001	1.418 (1.241-1.620)	<0.001
Male	3475 (28.8)	1.680 (1.551-1.818)	<0.001	1.761 (1.617-1.918)	<0.001
Number of metabolic syndromes
0	175 (7.1)	1.068 (0.931-1.225)	0.347	0.964 (0.702-1.323)	0.819
1-2	2291 (22.0)	1.267 (1.121-1.431)	<0.001	1.233 (1.121-1.357)	<0.001
≥3	2359 (46.2)	2.535 (2.264-2.839)	<0.001	2.811 (2.497-3.163)	<0.001

Adjusted for age, gender, underlying diseases, and MS.