Clinical characteristics in patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in Japan: a case-control study using a 5-year large-scale claims database.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine the clinical characteristics of patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and associated comorbidities.

Design

A case-control study using the national health insurance and the long-term elderly health insurance claims database.

Setting

Eligible patients diagnosed with NASH (ICD-10 K-75.8, other inflammatory liver disease or K-76.0, other fatty liver) between April 2015 and March 2020 were included.

Participants

Patients who met the diagnostic definitions for NASH (n=545) were matched with non-NASH controls (n=185 264) and randomly selected according to sex, birth year and residential area.

Interventions

No interventions were made.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

ORs were estimated for the relationship between

SUBMITTER: Tokutsu K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10445376 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature