Prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in children and relationship to metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, and waist circumference

Table 1 Number of subjects with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease according to sex

Sex^a	Subjects (n) aged 6–10 years with NAFLD^b	Subjects (n) aged 11–15 years with NAFLD^b	Cases (n) of NAFLD in total study cohort^b
Male	10/194 (5.2)	19/244 (7.8)	29/438 (6.6)
Female	3/194 (1.5)	5/214 (2.3)	8/408 (2.0)
Total	13/388 (3.4)	24/458 (5.2)	37/846 (4.4)

NAFLD, Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
^aSex differences in terms of presence of NAFLD was examined by the Mantel–Haentzel χ² test (Yaetes correction, P = 0.003)
^bValues are given as the number of each group with NAFLD relative to the study population under consideration. The percentage of the subjects with NAFLD are given in parenthesis

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