The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine

Table 1 Comparison between the NAFLD group and control group regarding laboratory variables

From: Sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) as a predictor of liver fibrosis in subjects with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)

	Control group n = 30		NAFLD group n = 60		P ^a
	Median	Average rank	Median	Average rank	P ^a
TLC	7.70	49.25	6.80	43.63	0.3354
HB	12.00	55.92	11.00	40.29	0.0073
PLT	220.50	49.60	212.50	43.45	0.2922
T.BIL	0.69	44.78	0.70	45.86	0.8538
T.PTN	8.00	41.73	8.00	47.38	0.3147
Albumin	4.00	55.28	3.95	40.61	0.0106
ALT	17.50	19.38	44.00	58.56	< 0.0001
AST	13.50	22.82	34.00	56.84	< 0.0001
ALP	114.50	36.65	138.50	49.93	0.0230
GGT	98.50	52.58	78.00	41.96	0.0688
INR	0.99	37.60	1.00	48.76	0.0464
TG	118.50	24.22	186.50	56.14	< 0.0001
LDL	67.50	26.70	98.00	54.90	< 0.0001
HDL	73.00	64.55	47.50	35.98	< 0.0001
Cholesterol	163.50	42.37	163.50	47.07	0.4209
SHBG_ng\ml_	9.50	43.55	9.50	46.48	0.6102

^aMann-Whitney test

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