Association of Life’s Essential 8 and Life’s Simple 7 with metabolic-associated fatty liver disease in the United States

Table 3 Association of individual Life’s Essential 8 metric with metabolic-associated fatty liver disease¹

CVH component (per 10)	Crude model			Adjusted model
	OR	95%CI	P value	OR	95%CI	P value
LE8 health behaviors	0.84	0.79-0.90	< 0.001	0.85	0.74-0.99	0.042
LE8 health factors	0.5	0.46-0.55	< 0.001	0.5	0.42-0.60	0.004
DASH score	0.95	0.91-0.99	0.018	0.95	0.87-1.04	0.128
PA score	0.92	0.89-0.94	< 0.001	0.92	0.88-0.97	0.023
Smoking score	0.99	0.97-1.01	0.15	0.99	0.93-1.06	0.636
Sleeping score	0.98	0.93-1.04	0.471	0.98	0.88-1.11	0.623
BMI score	0.7	0.66-0.74	< 0.001	0.69	0.61-0.77	0.006
HDL score	0.86	0.83-0.89	< 0.001	0.88	0.81-0.96	0.026
Glu score	0.75	0.71-0.80	< 0.001	0.79	0.68-0.91	0.019
BP score	0.83	0.79-0.88	< 0.001	0.86	0.77-0.97	0.034

¹Adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, education, marital status, poverty-to-income ratio, alcohol status, diabetes, kidney failure, kidney stones, heart failure, stroke, hepatopathy, rheumatoid arthritis, and cancer.

CVH: Cardiovascular health; OR: Odds ratio; LE8: Life’s Essential 8; DASH: Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension; BMI: Body mass index; HDL: High-density lipoprotein; BP: Blood pressure; Glu: Glucose.