Baseline hepatocyte ballooning is a risk factor for adverse events in patients with chronic hepatitis B complicated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Table 7 Univariate and multivariate Cox regression analysis of cirrhosis after propensity score matching

Parameters	Univariate	P value	Multivariate	P value
	HR (95%CI)		HR (95%CI)
Age (yr)	1.06 (1.01-1.11)	0.02	1.05 (0.99-1.11)	0.11
Hypertension	3.26 (0.89-11.90)	0.07	0.59 (0.12-2.97)	0.52
Diabetes	6.74 (0.77-58.81)	0.08	12.21 (1.1-134.4)	0.04
Lobular inflammation	2.63 (1.02-6.82)	0.046	1.20 (0.26-5.57)	0.82
Ballooning degeneration	4.33 (1.01-5.15)	0.006	1.80 (0.86-4.48)	0.02
Portal tract inflammation	2.37 (1.18-4.75)	0.02	72.61 (2.16-2436)	0.48
Fibrosis	1.57 (0.96-2.56)	0.07	1.03 (0.48-2.25)	0.93
ALT(U/L)	1.00 (1.00-1.01)	0.06	1.00 (0.99-1.01)	0.26
PLT (× 109/L)	0.98 (0.96-0.99)	< 0.001	0.98 (0.96-0.99)	0.001

ALT: Alanine aminotransferase; PLT: Platelet.