Prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in patients with hepatitis B: A meta-analysis

Table 3 Results of meta-regression analysis of the risk association between hepatitis B infection and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Heterogeneous factors	Coef.	SE	95%CI		P value
			Lower	Upper
Age	0.477	0.391	-0.347	1.302	0.061
Year	-0.020	0.055	-0.136	0.096	0.723
Study quality	-0.527	0.734	-2.075	1.021	0.718
Study design	-0.226	0.265	-0.784	0.332	0.959
Diagnosis of fatty liver	-0.095	0.223	-0.565	0.375	0.827
BMI	0.848	0.389	0.233	1.673	0.010
Diabetes	0.790	0.417	-0.112	1.691	0.015
Study location	0.992	0.082	0.832	1.182	0.208
Follow	-0.068	0.057	-0.191	0.054	0.603

BMI: Body mass index.