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- Title
Serum Sialic Acid Level Is Significantly Associated with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in a Nonobese Chinese Population: A Cross-Sectional Study.
- Authors
Lu, Zhenya; Ma, Han; Xu, Chengfu; Shao, Zhou; Cen, Chao; Li, Youming
- Abstract
Background/Aim. To investigate the association between serum sialic acid (SA) levels and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in a nonobese Chinese population. Methods. A cross-sectional study was performed among the 5916 adults who took their annual health examinations at International Health Care Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, from December 2013 to November 2014. Results. A total of 693 (11.71%) subjects fulfilled the diagnostic criteria of NAFLD, and NAFLD patients had significantly higher serum SA levels than controls (P<0.001). The prevalence of NAFLD was positively associated with serum SA levels (P for trend <0.001). Serum sialic acid levels are significantly associated with features of metabolic syndrome (Ps<0.01). Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that serum SA level was significantly associated with risk for NAFLD (odds ratio: 1.018, 95%; confidence interval: 1.007–1.030; P=0.002). Conclusions. Our results suggest for the first time that NAFLD patients had higher serum SA level than controls, and increased serum SA level is significantly associated with risk for NAFLD in a large nonobese Chinese population.
- Subjects
CHINA; FATTY liver; CONFIDENCE intervals; PROBABILITY theory; RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL variables; HYDROXY acids; LOGISTIC regression analysis; STATISTICAL significance; METABOLIC syndrome; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ODDS ratio; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
BioMed Research International, 2016, Vol 2016, p1
- ISSN
2314-6133
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2016/5921589