Fig 1.
Study participant flow and exclusions.
Participants with complete data at baseline (N = 33,875). Excluding participants with AUDIT score > 8 (n = 4500) and/or BMI < 18.5kg/m2 (n = 230), N = 29145 were selected. Further excluding those without any follow-up visits (n = 19,827), those diagnosed with NAFLD at baseline or those with less than 6 months of follow-up data (n = 2805), the final number of study participants selected N = 6,513.
Table 1.
Characteristics of participants at baseline according to BMI categories.
Table 2.
Incidence rates and incidence rate ratios of NAFLD for demographic and cardiometabolic risk factors.
Table 3.
Cardiometabolic disorders and the risk of NAFLD.
Table 4.
Cardiometabolic disorders and the risk of NAFLD in lean and non-lean participants.
Table 5.
Baseline waist circumference and the risk of NAFLD in lean and non-lean individuals.