Table 4 Association of eating quickly with AST/ALT ratio < 1 among participants with ALT > 40 or not (Japan, from April 2013 to March 2014)
Not eating quickly group | Eating quickly group | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
OR (95%CI) | p value | OR (95%CI) | p value | OR (95%CI) | p value | ||||
Men | |||||||||
ALT > 40 | (n = 17,113) | (n = 9502) | |||||||
AST/ALT ratio < 1, n (%) | 15,338 (89.6) | 8985 (94.6) | 2.01 (1.81–2.23) | < 0.001 | 1.49 (1.33–1.66) | < 0.001 | 1.18 (1.05–1.33) | 0.004 | |
AST/ALT ratio ≥ 1, n (%) | 1775 (10.4) | 517 (5.4) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
ALT ≤40 | (n = 114,878) | (n = 44,031) | |||||||
AST/ALT ratio < 1, n (%) | 42,952 (37.4) | 20,322 (46.2) | 1.44 (1.40–1.47) | < 0.001 | 1.38 (1.35–1.41) | < 0.001 | 1.09 (1.06–1.12) | < 0.001 | |
AST/ALT ratio ≥ 1, n (%) | 71,926 (62.6) | 23,709 (53.8) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
Women | |||||||||
ALT > 40 | (n = 3127) | (n = 1213) | |||||||
AST/ALT ratio < 1, n (%) | 2802 (89.6) | 1114 (91.8) | 1.30 (1.03–1.65) | 0.027 | 1.18 (0.92–1.51) | 0.185 | 1.06 (0.83–1.36) | 0.638 | |
AST/ALT ratio ≥ 1, n (%) | 325 (10.4) | 99 (8.2) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
ALT ≤40 | (n = 72,260) | (n = 20,949) | |||||||
AST/ALT ratio < 1, n (%) | 10,657 (14.7) | 3926 (18.7) | 1.33 (1.28–1.39) | < 0.001 | 1.35 (1.30–1.41) | < 0.001 | 1.11 (1.07–1.16) | < 0.001 | |
AST/ALT ratio ≥ 1, n (%) | 61,603 (85.3) | 17,023 (81.3) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||