Of the 503 NAFLD patients in the data set, 62%were female, 58% had
concomitant hypertension, 48% had concomitant DMand themean BMI
was 36.1 kg/m2. NASH and advanced fibrosis were present in 71.8% and
28.1% of the cohort respectively.
Table 1 illustrates the characteristics of the whole cohort and also
patients with and without DM. Compared to NAFLD patients without
DM, patients with DM were older (52.5 vs. 46.0 years; p b 0.001),
were more likely to be female (70.7% vs. 54.0%; p b 0.001) and have a
higher BMI (37.2 vs. 35.2 kg/m2; p = 0.009).